In My Next Life

In My Next Life

This is
that day,

the apex
of the experience;

expecting other
than I got,

I experienced
otherness.

My life became a series
of self-conscious moments,

and I felt that
I was the other.

There was the me
on the outside

and the hidden,
inner me.

I lived,
in my way.

But,
in my next life,

I will expect nothing,
and nothing will change,

because the apex
of otherness

mirrors the life,
"alone, but never lonely."