0025 If you were me, I'd be you, too - one for Plato

If we were all exactly the same,
what would the effect be?

would life be simpler,
and totally boring with it?
and poetry, unnecessary?

for instance, you'd know
how much I love you
down to the very first and last eyelash of a kiss

so I wouldn't need to write
a poem about it

and you'd know that
and I'd know that

but you'd know that
although I know
you know that

there would still be
the miracle

that when I look at you
I see a finer image of myself
reflected in your eyes

would that go, or stay,
if I were you,
and you were me?

poem by Michael Shepherd
Submitted by Poetry Lover
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