Come Spend Time With the Self Who Is Silent

I am not I
I am this one
walking beside me whom I do not see,
whom at times I manage to visit,
and at other times I forget.
The one who remains silent when I talk,
the one who forgives, sweet, when I hate,
the one who takes a walk when I am indoors,
the one who will remain standing when I die.
….The witness or secret stranger is the person we most want to be, for the simple reason that we are it already, and have just lost touch with this knowledge due to our being enmeshed in the confusion, temptation and disorientation of incarnate existence.

–Jaun Ramon Jimenez