One

There you are…

All alone again…

But not feeling even close to alone.

We’re all there with you.

To comfort and reassure you.

To love you.

And to be loved by you.

It’s so elegant…

…that you get what you give.

It’s * almost * a secret.

That you should exude “peace” and “love.”

So that’s what you’ll receive. 

It’s so reassuring…

…that the love each person gives each person receives.

But sometimes you can’t overcome a group’s patterning.

And it isn’t peace and love that you receive.

And so you teach the idea to them.

And then explain it to them again.

And again.

And they exude all the various emotions that you don’t want to feel and that you don’t want to receive.

Responding so automatically.

In a way that isn’t beautiful.

In a way that isn’t elegant.

So it’s solitude that you seek.

And it’s solitude that you still need. 

All alone again…

….you want to be…

…countless miles away…

…so far from humanity…

…that’s where you want to go.

That’s where you want to be.

Knowing that wherever you go…

There everyone will be.

Facing our fears together.

Sharing each other’s anxieties.

Because…

We are one.

We are one - inescapably.

But though we may think of each other that way…

…in all those exquisite far away places….

The truth is that we are not one.

No two people can be.

We will pull apart.

And we will pull together.

In perpetuity.

For eternity.

We are patterned together.

And we are patterned individually.

Each a little differently.

We are inescapably one.

Peace and love is all we need.

But I am not you.

And you are not me.