BECAUSE YOU ARE: REFLECTIONS ON BEING AND BECOMING
"We like to imagine there’s an invisible thread that ties us to our fate, and often we yearn for it—to know who or what is tied to the other end waiting to greet us in our near future. Yet, we wish to be free do we not? Here lies an interesting paradox.”
Weaving prose, poetry, affirmations, and creative essays, Because You Are: Reflections on Being and Becoming serves as a journey that maps the path to self-forgiveness, acceptance and liberation.
One night, I had a dream where a small squid-like alien took revenge on humanity because it was being used as an ink machine printer.
This collection has nothing to do with aliens or sci-fi (sorry to disappoint). But after reflecting on that dream—after speaking to the small squid about what it had done and why—I realized something: it was me.
I felt like I was being used as an ink machine printer, churning out words day after day, typing away, delivering copy on demand. So I made a decision:
For one month, I would set aside the computer and the documents.
I would write by hand.
And as the ink flowed, something happened. I felt my soul slowly return to my body.
So, in contrast to the infamous words of the Bhagavad Gita—echoed in Oppenheimer (2023)—“I am become death,” I chose to title this collection:
I Am Become Life.
Thirty prose poems, written in thirty days. Each one a step toward strength, healing, accountability, grace. A conversation between the self that was, and the self that is becoming.
This is that journey.
Dimensions:
5.5 x 8.5”
60 pages
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