Self Awareness

October 11, 2018/in Poems /by ian

Imagine
If just for one hour
You could inhabit someone else’s head
See yourself from the outside
As you really are?
Imagine
How much you’d learn
Seeing all those gestures
You know from the inside,
Smelling your smell,
Feeling your tactile presence?
At once you’d understand
How credible you are,
How well you fill―or don’t―a space,
Why people love and hate you.
Think of all the money
You’d save?
In that one hour
You’d circumvent
A decade’s therapy