Essence

He thought he understood

That to be nobody

Was to abandon being somebody

He needed

To revisit the discovery

To reflect on exposures

He needed to reexamine

Was it true that…

Creating the final words of a poem

Was to invite fear the words

Wouldn’t suffice?

The locked door of bad judgment

Was often necessary

In creating the key for unlocking later?

To embrace fame

Was to risk loss of need?

Learning to quit

Was to invite a self-destructive habit?

Supernatural belief

Was a cowardice denial of reality?

To accept oneself as is

Was to allow oneself to change?

Discovering love

Allowed making friends with hate?

Being a nobody in love

Became the he of she

The she of he

Essence