Comparison

You measure your requests 
By your neighbor’s 
As though your elevation 
Might be the same
As though your destiny
Will meet—
plane to plane 
As though becoming one 
Is anything other than reaching 
By your own means 
In your own way
Whatever place you are meant to 
Experience 
In whatever way you are meant to experience 
As whatever being you are to experience
Being
Being
Needy
Needy you
Together 
In this utterly twisted
Divinely spiritual 
Spiritual place.

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Poem: © 2022 Ashley Wolpert Miller
Photo credit: © Yakobchuk Olena / Adobe Stock