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All the way up, all the way down

Scattered snakes

A leap of faith

A vacation from self

Into void

 

Two doors

Open Eyes

A descent

Into what we avoid

 

Constant sounds

Crescendos

To proximity

Of now

Meditation breaks

Then reforms

 

Foreign Sensations

Cell surge

Heavy heart

Static dreams

A pit opens

In consciousness

 

Destruction of silos

Synthesized parts

Hypnotized whole

One moment

Breaking into many

 

Weight of being

Sinking into flesh

Falling through mind

Flying past thought

Floating in awareness

Light as emptiness

 

I want to hold onto my memories

Like water in cupped hands

I fear entropy taking them away

Bit by bit, byte by byte

I am attached to them and I love them

Even as they change me

I see life through them

Through dreams that dream me

 

Webs of Stories form beliefs

Influencing actions

Creating concepts of me

Until me becomes myth

 

A synthesis of cells

Speaking electric tongues

A possession of matter

By patterns that think

Through a brain and a spine

And everything between

Resulting in unity

Of scattered fragments

 

Interactions forming bonds

All the way up

All the way down

Outside and within

Culture eating society

Society eating self

 

Self eating body

Body eating mind

Biology consuming chemistry

Chemistry consuming physics

Down to quantum foam

 

Relationships and interactions

Observation collapses waves

Into singular moments

Of existence

 

Embodied interactionism

Where Brahman meets brain

Where infinite touches finite

Where I dissolve

Into we

 

Forming beliefs

From scattered signs

Influencing actions

Through quantum dice

Creating me

From cosmic debris

Until individual

Becomes universal

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Written by
sarah-richardson
25 / F
Published
Nov 14, 2024
Lines·Words
79·250
Tags
#conscious#consciousness#self#universe#philosophy#identity#dreams#unconscious
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