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self-experience of change

(like a serpent at my temple)
  
   
I had a strange experience  
that caused an urgent will to write  
about that days to make some sense  
out of confusing nights  
   
I saw myself reflecting me  
and discovered something new  
got curious at first to see:  
a vein at my temple cued  
   
for frightening dangers for my health  
scaring me who faced his fears  
two days to leave my former self  
because a new one had appeared  
   
      ---  
   
like a serpent at my temple  
a strange sign appeared to be  
a foreboding to reassemble  
underlying tendencies  
   
like a symbol from my future  
growing out of my farewells  
releasing me into a new pure  
spiritual heaven-and-hell  
      a stream of blood, a pulsing vein  
      experiencing my self again
      within a somehow changed new skin  
      as one with doubts and  
            everything else  
   
      ---  
   
to face a life I don't know how to live  
      but I will survive through  
            the meaning that I give  
to the life I wonder how to live  
   
I find a life by discovering my trace  
leading to an unknown fate  
no time, no place,  
      don't hesitate  
to inhale what you cannot embrace  
and exhale to leave the presolved maze
Written by knowthyself (know thyself)
Published | Edited 7th May 2019
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