Speak Me

Speak me
Language names me
it is before
me
It named itself before
I did
Before syntactic 'I'
Before semantic 'I want'
Language showed my face
in front of me
off of me
not under my hands but
before my eyes
And showed 'this is you'
eyes
and 'this is also you'
hands
And I understood 'this is not me'
the space between my eyes and hands.

Oct 5, 09