You Are the Universe

You Are the Universe

I think that love is 
When you see yourself in someone else
Or you see them in yourself 

And you realize that you are the universe
That you are:

The other humans too 
You are the other half of their unfinished sentence 
They're speaking words you thought belonged only in your head
And somehow you thought you were strangers
But you aren’t.

You’re even the water’s waves 
They want to carry you with them 
They don’t leave you behind
They hold you in the arms of their ripples

The sun reaches for us 
Painting us with its rays

Even the wind wants to take you for a ride
It wants to lift you in its rush 
And take you on a journey
It wants to tug at your hair 
And the papers in your hands

Yet we resist it 
We try to separate ourselves

Not realizing
We are the Earth
We are its elements
Its wind and water
Its humans and fire

We are the universe

In human form

~ JL

This poem is about: 
Me
My family
My community
My country
Our world

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