Mind

 The most mysterious place in the Universe,

but how can I explore a mind that doesn’t

exist in space? The source of all fear, but I

am the haunted house: the warped floorboards,

the portal where demons come and go, the screams

 

of the innocent. Is there no exit? Charon

is the breath. The eyes turned inward,

the gold coins, the cost to see Hell from the perspective

of the flames. I am the Styx, Hades, Persephone,

Orpheus and Eurydice. Most of all I am

Tantalus, Sisyphus, an apple just out of reach,

the endless task, the torture.

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(Cuenca, Ecuador -- May, 2021)

The thought that I am my mind and my mind is me, yet I should be able to control my mind as if I were a separate entity makes my head hurt.