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The paradox

of self-awareness

near and yet so far

 

Looking out

to see within

imploding like a star

 

The door that enters

exits free

its threshold bright then dim

 

Allowing what

the psyche fears

—to pass both out and in

 

(Dreamsleep: March, 2023)

 

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