WHO ARE YOU? — identity vortex

who are you

tell me then

how

tell me, tell me how

by a fluke of accident

a confluence of time and space

hey presto, you come about

time and space

born, locked, looked at and after

time and space

in a grid of rituals, rules,

taboos and thereafter

by a culture

time and space culture

a script you call your own

time and space culture script

until

untill you realize

albeit it takes hesitant, hazy tries

it grows on you finally

fast, at last

time and space culture script legacy

the legacy you have taken

for granted, loathed and loved

culture, country, roles, gods, class and gender

but a web

time and space culture script legacy web

indeed a screen

time and space culture script legacy web screen

a screen imposed at will

a grid through which you’ve learnt to peer

time and space culture script legacy web screen grid

hero, villain, victim, vulture

of your culture

the culture you are conditioned to call

your own

both hostage and host

you stare in a daze

through your lattice of frames

time and space culture script legacy web screen grid frames

the world inside and out there

behold the ‘other’

so different

and yet the same

so familiar

and and yet so strange

conditions, imprints, blueprints and templates

time and space culture script legacy web screen grid frames

imprints blueprints templates

you’ve decided consciously – or not –

to adopt

for a while

to belong

to embrace a language, practice

faces, spaces, genes, memes, traditions, customs

time and space culture script legacy web screen grid frames

imprints blueprints template language practice memes genes

to belong

to manners and mores

but not before long

time and space culture script legacy web screen grid frames

imprints blueprints template language practice memes genes

manners mores prism

you find you are more or less

both less and more than the grid

your inspiring, binding, blinding prism

the whole caboodle

this endlessly textured universe

this boundless tapestry

time and space culture script legacy web screen grid frames

imprints blueprints template,language practice memes genes

manners mores prism universe tapestry

reduced

to a single thread

of filters

a gossamer lace of memory traces:

your identity

tell me now

tell

who