Duplex
My true self is waking.
She speaks to me in mysterious dreams.
I dream I speak to her.
She is told to step into the tornado.
I am torn, I am winded. I am afraid to sleep.
A hawk carries me in its strong talons.
Carried into deliverance, sharp and pointed—
divine, like Jonah’s whale.
Well, what can I say about the divine?
This god-shaped hole called myself.
God’s calling; will I heed the call?
Will I answer to what I’m meant to do?
Will I become who I’m meant to be?
My true self is waking.
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I love duplexes! Glad to read your fine one.
I adore the rhythm of this and I connect with this poem so much, it feels so familiar. Especially in the third and fourth stanza and the line “this god-shaped hole called myself.”