To be ‘as if’ I could be another person, time, or place
To travel beyond who I am and float internally with grace
To become another and transform anew
Move back in history with a slightly different view
In order to feel, know, and be awakened
So different understandings can be hastened
Empathic expanse, renewed understanding
Deeper awareness with humanity advancing
Accept that which seems abhorrent
To shift and soften what is discordant
To calm the tide of polarities
Endeavor to massage and find similarities.
To be ‘as if’ I were the other
To share and hold and even suffer.
Being different than what is known
To cause disruption and feeling alone
To heal the divide by being ‘you’
To know it deeply from a broader view
Shared connections to create and renew
Even feeling your pain, ‘as if’ – Ki ilu
