You were never here before You were never here You were never You were You
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You You were You were never You were never here You were never here before [I heard a yoga teacher say the phrase “You were never here before,” and it struck me on many levels. The poem tries to convey those levels. The physical miracle that, right now, this moment is completely new – “You were never here before.” Then the implication of that, which rattles down to the core of our being – “You.” If you were never here before, were you ever anywhere, or have you always been arising and falling. Thus the reader and speaker retraverses the ray of this moment, stripping away the structure of the sentence (and of existence) and finds… what?] [Also had the image of these words written on a mirror, with a gap in the mirror where the “listen” goes.]