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Seeing and Being
(on positionality)
✍🏽Aishwarya Prakash
I see you,
You see me.
If it ended here, it would all be well
And what I saw, to the whole world I’d tell.
But if only it were as simple as this,
Many of life’s nuances we would not miss.
Because it’s not just that I see you,
Or that
You see me
But also,
You see me seeing you,
And I see you seeing me.
And in the middle of all this,
How we think we are seen
Changes our being.
And the question remains
How can two people ever see the same thing,
Or see anything at all?
Aren’t we all like the five blind men,
Each touching some part of the elephant
One claiming it’s a tree trunk,
Another a rope,
A fan, or something more?
So unable to grasp it all,
The elephant remains unseen,
In the middle of all our seeing
Even as each of us swears
That what we saw is what there is.
But if only we could learn to accept
That all our seeing
Is limited by our being
Maybe,
We could all see
More than just what we saw.