No Duality / I Am Not on this Shore

by Dan Vera

I cannot live on one side
of the duality
which battered me as a child

I cannot claim membership
in this group
which has always silenced me.

I cannot live in a place
separate from women who reside within me
just as much as men.

I am neither neither nor or.

I am a bridge
or I am perpetually unbalanced.

© 2003 - Dan Vera

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