What is your name?
So simple.
A question,
Asked again and again.
I always know the answer.
Simple
Im me.
But my name is not my identity.
Ask me now what you really want to know.
Ask me before you make preconceived notions about what you think I am
and then choose to go.
I am not my name.
I am not those who were before me
who were called the same as I.
But I can't touch the ground they walked on without seeing the same sky.
We all have our experiences.
We walk alone, but always together.
Everything is relative.
We’ll all be here forever.
We are forged from the same stardust.
by accident,
but it was absolutely fate.
Completely inevitable
Its ok.
You want to know me
You already do
I am me
but I am you too.
It all comes down to one thing.
So simple.
About the Creator
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A Flower Song
Apparently the Aztecs, Toltecs, Chichimecs and other Mexica were crazy about poetry. Despite the book-burning, slaughter, and epidemics that characterized the early stages of the Spanish conquest of the empires of Mexico, some hundreds of poems from the height of their tradition come down to us in Classical Nahuatl, preserved by Nahua and Spanish scholars of the 16th century. One of the most famous poets, Nezahualcoyotl, was a sage-king who opposed the cult of human sacrifice associated with Tezcatlipoca, God of the Smoking Mirror, and favored Quetzalcoatl, the Feathered Serpent. Flowers and feathers were the favorite offering of the Plumed Serpent. Moreover, flowers and feathers are a metaphor for poetry. Individual words, scattered petals, the down of tropical birds. The temples of blood sacrifice could be transformed into temples of flower and song. A sublimated offering to the Heart of Earth and the Heart of Sky encapsulated in the Classical Nahuatl kenning for poetry: in xōchitl in cuīcatl, meaning, "the flower and the song." The following poem is part of a longer work, and is in a state of flux, so take the waters as they flow:
By Rob Angeli6 days ago in Poets
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