One Self

Consciousness
Being singular
Can only ever be intimate
At one with
Form — itself

Never with another
Consciousness

Intimacy
Between humans —
Two singular consciousnesses
Is a structural
Impossibility

Human is intimate
More completely
With food, a word
A photograph — a dead object —
Than he can ever be
With another
Living human

The other —
Only as an object
Is fully and truly
One self

Never
As a subject

Only as thought — an object —
Humans can ever love
Another

Never otherwise