“I Aspire To Be You,” She Said With Earnest Eyes
Or, Literal Full Circle
(to: Rowan)(from a female Faust)
i won’t fall for thinking i partake of your perspective
— this time; won’t think that once i’ve thought about it, everything is solved;
will not again believe that anyone can be objective;
if there’s one thing i know i know, i know that it’s — involved.
but if i may hazard a guess at an of-best-fitting curve,
based, officially (if asked) on only data sourced from — me:
since i remember — likewise — conjuring the — nerve:
know i was once most perfectly exactly as you are now, to me.
of course there were many differences, none salient, here
to each our own æsthetic, most certainly our own,
but along this one parameter, the correlation’s clear
the spoken words the same, what else must needs be shown?
the world indeed is strange, stranger than i knew
for once upon a time, was i, precisely, you.
