Without Our Selves

A clear glass orb floats

above the cliff

just off the edge

representing our conscience, souls, and selves

what if it shatters?

becoming a puzzle of icy glass

and then nothing at all?

what if it disappears?

what would we fight for?

would we still know ourselves

for the loving,

backstabbing,

beautiful,

horrible,

emotional,

heartless,

empathetic,

shunning,

wonderful people we are?

could we go on without ourselves?

without a foothold?

step lightly, they say

don’t leave your self like a scarf in the forest

like a sandal on the beach

tuck it in safe

don’t free it

don’t lose it

don’t go without a railing

but could we be more

without the limits

of our own selves?

if we could take the risk

would we end up not being in trouble after all?

would we be freeing ourselves

by letting go of our SELVES?

we’d have identity

of what we know

and what we’ve learned

but not the burden

of the world.

Inspiration:

I was sitting on the floor of my room, and I decided to write something. I do that often. So I started the first line. I pictured a clear orb, floating just off the edge of a cliff. Then I got into the poem. I questioned our inner selves, and so this poem was born.

Explanation: I don’t know a lot about this poem. For all I know, I didn’t write it. Honestly, I don’t understand it. It feels like something someone else, that understands this topic, would write. But I wrote it, not because I know about it, but because it came out of me and I typed it down here. I don’t know it any more than you do. But I feel it’s my job to explain at least part of it.

I feel like it’s questioning whether or not we’d be freer if we didn’t question ourselves before the jump. If we let go and went on the adventure. I’m not saying that our selves teach. Our selves show us the way. But we don’t always have to have it tucked into our jackets. We could loosen up and sway.

The last two lines are interesting. In a way, our selves are the world. They mean the world. They show the world. They learn from the world. They teach the world. They ARE the world? So I’m saying, lighten that load.

Thanks for reading! If this was confusing and I could do a better job explaining, ask a question in the comments or something.