Me and Not I

Me and Not I

We’re not exactly strangers

As close as we get sometimes

It’s hard to forget or explain

Or completely let go

The best I can get to is No-mind

Which is exactly what

I’ve come to expect

Me and Not I

We’re careful to pay

Each other No-mind

Me and Not I

It’s hard to take sometimes

Almost enough to drive me

Out of my mind

The good with the bad of it

And the worst of it yet

It’s what I’ve come to expect

As one Nen leads to another
And we start rushing up for air

Right after hitting bottom

Make me into something

That no one else

Will recognize

A new zip code and

A new shoe size

Me and Not I

Me and Not I

Between the two of us I'm unsure

Where things stand – Not me and I

Wherever we go

A membrane keeps us apart
We’re always so close
But short of being one

At least not yet
Not Me and I

Hilma af Klint