Who is living your life
The image your parents created
The image your partner created
The image your children created
The image your co-workers created
The image your ego mind created
Who is living your life
When you were born
You came here as nobody
Then somebody put a name on you
Somebody started telling you
Who you are
And it continued throughout your life
Maybe the you
That you portray
Really is the inner you
But some
Have never expressed their true self
They keep it hidden
Under what the world
Tells them they should be
Knowing our true selves
Is the simplest thing we can do
But definitely not the easiest
To empty the ego mind
Of all its senseless chatter
In order to hold our core mind
In the heart center
Takes a strong desire
To get rid of
All the veils of identity
This doesn’t mean the veils
Can’t be put back on
All of them or selected ones
To allow the world to see us
As it thinks we are
It simply means
That we are no longer
Triggered by thoughts or emotions
We are no longer bound
By what others think
They can think whatever they want
They can see whatever they want
As we rest in the center of our being
Knowing who we are
Regardless of which hat
We chose to wear
E.A. Fussell
10.04.2020
E. A. Fussell 