Hey, Self - how do I know that you exist? <br />Or are you just a word - a useful term <br />for what we hope our real nature is, <br />those things about us which we're proud to affirm? <br /> <br />So, can we know you? How to start the search? <br />A dictionary hardly gives the clue; <br />Or are you always far beyond our reach? <br />A mirage always 'too good to be true'? <br /> <br />Or, are you so close known, that we can prove - <br />by dropping off all that we know we're not - <br />that what is left is what we are: true love: <br />that, which we always are; cannot be got. <br /> <br />O Self, you must be all that's true and real: <br />for without you, we'd never know unreal.<br /><br />Michael Shepherd<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/0376-self-search/
