I Am

POETS UNITED
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asks us to consider our own being


I AM

'I think, therefore I am.'

An age-old philosophy.

If one is thinking a thought, it says,

Then, clearly, one must 'be'.

I certainly think I exist,

But what is in my head

Is the thing that I shall miss most

When, finally, I am dead.

So, when all thought ceases,

Will my body disappear?

Of course it wont, but it will for me

And that's what we're considering here.

In fact, the whole darned universe

Will just become non-existent,

Although, in all my thinking years,

It's been solid and persistent.

So maybe thought is the only thing

That really and truly exists!

Now there's a fundamental thought

For the fundamentalists!

'I am', the title of this piece,

May simply be a lie!

I'm thinking, but I wonder,

Very often,

Why.

Thank you, Descartes, you've given me a headache!

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Simple Alphabet

KITE

Young Ken was incredibly slight;
He was skinny and tiny and light.
I know it sounds weird
But he's now disappeared,
Hanging-on to the end of a kite!
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