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     Individualism?

 It could be that I am Perfection's Love

and all that you need.
 
It could be that you will brim with satiation
from all I seem; 
 
I could be in error tho, 
and therefore cannot be Me
if all of above were true .
 
But Being Me should not lie down at
Needs Door
and be external to the Me
I was born with 
and the Me I am.
 
So perhaps I should be the Am I already Am
and need not Be for you
the All you need, 
 
understanding however that tack
is mere self-contained self-sufficiency
which in the end is isolating and lonely.
 
Surely self-containment is not  the perfection we all should seek. 
It must thus
that the individualistic suppositions we all assume
are clearly not true
because I am not truly the individual Am 
and never was and cannot become individual
without the support of the many and their love down the years.
 
If, therefore, I am indeed a collective Me, 
then how can I be the perfect match-
singularly- for thee? 
 
The only way I think this could be
is that I and you
become Singularities and Multiplicities simultaneously.
 
But is this Schizophrenia
both individually and culturally? 
There is that word Individual again.
Yet it seems obvious in the end
we are individual and ,too, partake of multiplicities;
both in the mix.
No wonder we are confused--creatures who crave individualism 
yet are totally dependent upon the many.
So who are we?
Down one road is the lonliness of perfection and total self-sufficiency
and down the other is smothering conformity.
And we bounce back and forth in the in-between.

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