Other is not without but in
Us bothering us from within
Finding us of a mind to be
Our kind of specificity
But exploring how to be more
Than what we love by what we fear

To see another in my face
Some other place in time and space
Reminds me how I find me here
Before and after as what for
That I who could be different
Am this me now here where I went

When being me this way to be
Who could see now some other day
Understood in another way
In another reality
In one another anyway
Then other does not bother me

An other and another me
Where other is not without but
In not out and not without me
Whichever me no matter what
However I would or should or
Could be more than ever before

Other is us our own and yet
Another way to let us see
That when we get we find then to
Be you and me as us we who
Not to forget the it to get
Are here and now and this is it

To grow together until gone
Another reason to go on



Steven Curtis Lance