This poem, also published as a blog post, is one of the definitive explanatory pieces I created to explain The Otherhood of One. As has been my pattern in the past, after I complete a book, a poem comes to me that “sums it up”, a kind of poetic synopsis of whatever I just completed. This poem was the synopsis of a book entitled “Adventures in Otherhood: The Gathering”. I share it here because I believe it eloquently expresses much behind The Otherhood in general…
“The Love of One for An Other”
(9-16-94)
One turns to An Other and asks
“What do I mean?”
An Other to One:
“I means you are me.”
Confused One wonders
almost to Oneself
driven by questions, by need,
by Doubt…
“But how can I use this to get what I want? What is the reason for knowing this stuff?”
An Other laughs gently,
knowing One’s fear,
and a Reason for Knowing
becomes perfectly clear:
“You will know how to use this as soon as you see the Purpose of Being, what it means to be Me.”
Silence ensues as One contemplates…
A Moment… A Lifetime…
An Other just waits.
Smiling, One turns to An Other and says, “Thank you, my friend,
I do understand.”
Lifting One’s “eyes”
One finally sees
by the Light of An Other
the Truth within Being:
All I can Be…
All I Am…
All I want
is to Be
Me.
© Lisa R. Palmer, 1994.
the otherhood of one 