Perceptive Insight 12

"If you have an apple and I have an apple, we can exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange ideas, then each of us will have two ideas." George Bernard Shaw

A Teen Poem

I really like this. Sometimes teens have incredible insight that we don't give them credit for. Check out this poem by Anna Fishel of Mountain Lakes High School. It was published in the school's literary magazine 'Phoenix 2009'. I am particularly touched by the line 'Am I really to believe that there exist some six billion heres'? I have no idea what Anna's faith is based on but that's incredible, and for me gives strength to my own belief. Thank you, Anna, for bringing some light to our thoughts:


Here is where I am
Here is where my thoughts are.
Wherever I go, it follows
or perhaps wherever it goes, I follow.

I cannot be sure.

Here seems to be a bit too crowded
for there to be more than one.
Am I really to believe that there
Exist some six billion heres?

For that matter,
Does there exists a here at all?

Who ever said my thoughts had to be in my head?

What I call me
may very well dwell
in there

And the I,
the namer of things,
may or may not exist separately from the me.

It does not matter where I want to be
because I am here
and here I am.

Anna Fishel, Phoenix 2009