Let Be And Let See

[bairnsidhe]

To be is to think
To think is to communicate
To communicate is to be understood

Being and understanding
Are inextricably linked,
Painfully separated.

Being shouts into a void,
Hoping to hear an echo;
"You are not alone."


Understanding strains to reply
Across gulfs of time and tide;
"And let be, and let see"

We are not so different,
You, in your you-ness,
And I in my me-ness

We both wish only to
Be allowed to be
And be understood.

Comments

[readera]

I love this especially this stanza
'We are not so different,
You, in your you-ness,
And I in my me-ness'
❤💕👍👍

[technoshaman]

[bairnsidhe]

Thank you! I quite like it as well, as we all have some essential us-ness that we try to communicate, and fancy terms just make it unnecessarily specific and divisive.

[bairnsidhe]

:D 3q3q3q3q I like getting this type of reply to my work.

[thnidu]

Ah, yes. thank you // i suddenly have to type 1handed bc the domestic felon purring beside me squawked a protest when i stopped rubbing her chin to type //


• Understanding strains ^ reply
?^ to

[bairnsidhe]

>> i suddenly have to type 1handed bc the domestic felon purring beside me squawked a protest when i stopped rubbing her chin to type<<

And I'm laughing because I think you meant domestic feline, but they almost are domestic felons, aren't they? But yes, the cat must be petted when the cat demands petting.

>>• Understanding strains ^ reply
?^ to<<

Typo fixed, thank you.

[thnidu]

Oh, the wordplay was entirely deliberate!

BTW: username ≈ 'fae child'?

Respectfully submitted,
Dr. Whom: Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoëpist, and Philological Busybody

[bairnsidhe]

Yay! Wordplay friend!

Yep, it came from a childhood insistence I was half fairy because I had tiny feet and didn't fit in, but I quite like being the random fae of the interweb woods.