Universe – The Loaner or the Loanee Poem | On Existence, Identity and the Universe
Themes – Existence, consciousness, identity, interconnectedness, impermanence, and humanity’s relationship with the universe.
What are we, really? Are we separate individuals moving through the universe, or are we simply expressions of something much larger than ourselves? Universe – The Loaner or the Loanee is a philosophical poem that explores existence, identity, consciousness, and our relationship with the elements that sustain life. Through reflections on air, water, sunlight, and emptiness, the poem asks a profound question: are we indebted to the universe, or is the universe borrowing experience through us?
How real it is
The moments fading away
Every minute, every second
Unseen, every cell withering
Becoming nothing and everything
At the same time
The particles of air
Filling the emptiness
Around and within
Erasing and Creating life.
And every drop, turning into vapor
Filling the clouds, like they fill my cells
As I drink
And then, the same drops from heaven
Connecting the earth
Becoming the ocean.
Am I one of them
Or am I all of it?
I don’t understand the existence
Existing and disappearing
At the very same moment
I don’t understand myself
Made of water lying in front of me
Made of fruits and flowers
Grown by someone else
The heat coming from where I can never reach
The air that I can’t see
And in the end, the emptiness
Within which I sit.
I don’t understand,
Am I a piece of them
Or all of it.
Or is it they, and none of me?
If so it must be their dream,
Must be their love
Must be their pain
Then what it is, the point that I’m –
Experiencing.
Am I indebted, or
Am I the lender to the universe
For whom I experience,
I take birth, die and for them I live.
