Re: Bukowski's 'Alone With Everbody'

I see you
in me
sometimes
quite
literally

but I see you
in me
and I wonder
if the hundreds
of others
did too

I wonder if it scared them
I wonder if they knew it
I wonder if they refused, in the end
to see even the smallest bit
of you
like them

I see you in me
and that means
the occasional nightmare
unfulfilled desires,
and grave disappointments
caused of our own volition

the overwhelming ambivalence
the genius of pure humanity
in all its faltering forms
intersect to make a whole
that will never be filled
even when I see you in me

I pray you will never be full


-J