Together ? Ness ?

How best to find our
innermost human selves?
As an independent human ?
As a partnership element ?
Is a partnership’s intimate
closeness the place to find
the self  ? Or will it confine
and define the self within
its walls ? to fit the other
self  beside it ? Search for
a partner  Or explore the
paths opening up ahead ?

Better a large flower ?
or a cluster of blooms ?
A lone bee ? Or the
swarm inside the hive ?

A partnership in pain
damages, destroys. A
partnership in tandem
builds up each one within.

Previously posted August 2016