Briefing

Here is who you will be:

I. M. Ego

#1 My Place

Selfville, Body

Remember your address

and don't neglect

to decorate your walls and

keep your place unsoiled.

You need to live here, yes,

because your past exertions

somehow built this place

according to your own design.

Here you'll be safe,

with one catch--

you may not think

you are.

"Ego" has grown to be

an ugly word,

you'll notice, but it

only means your walls.

How could you reach

a later hatching into light

if forced to learn and grow

unsheltered by these walls?

Now go, be, love, talk,

laugh, err, create, teach,

glimpse and lose and

glimpse the light again.

Anything is permissible but

everything is accountable

while living in this dwelling

that restrains while it protects--

until the day you hatch

into the waiting sunlight

with a realized reaping

and a grateful weeping.

Alan Harris

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