Our Actual Identity

The poem in a nutshell

This poem is written from a spiritual angle. At the outset, there is a set of questions. However, later on, we come to find that all those questions have been answered by the speaker persona of the poem. Therefore, the question portion may be looked upon as a person's ignorant state of mind, while the later answer part depicts his / her deeper realisation.

The poem -- "Our Actual Identity"

Who am I? Who are you?

Wherefrom do I come?

Which place is this?

Where will I go?

Why do we fight?

For sheer sham fright?

For premeditated position?

What’s that? How long will it last?

We are none, we are nobody

But the divided parts

Of the Supreme Soul;

We are the divided bread-loaves.

We will have to go

There where we come from;

We have come here, on this

Transient playhouse to prove,

Prove how we can perform.

We get involved in this

World’s illusions, mirages,

That will never last,

That will fade away

Through the ages.

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