What are you thinking?
Can I ever truly know?
Even if you tell me,
What unnamed thoughts remain below,
Beneath the threshold words express?
And so, your thoughts stay foreign,
Unless somehow our minds extend
Beyond the borders of ourselves, to blend.
This poem explores the extent to which we can truly know and understand one another. Being aware of all the random thoughts that occur within my own mind, it's difficult to see how we could ever arrive at a similar level of awareness regarding the thoughts of others. If we're not able to do that, is it possible to ever truly know someone as we know ourselves? I don't know, but the poem ends with the hope that it is possible, because perhaps, somehow, our minds go beyond what we can rationally perceive or quantify within the physical confines of our own heads - extending into other places where they can truly come into contact.
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