Labels and Boxes

A while back, a message board I participated on had a discussion of the words we humans like to use to define ourselves and each other. This was my response to the person who initiated the discussion:

Definition

we are all one word
one world

but maybe right now
that's too much
for us to know

too scary
too powerful
too intimate

so we need the labels
the boxes
the categories

to keep ourselves sorted out
we can pretend we are safe that way
we can pretend we have things under control

I can call myself
woman
writer
Buddhist
American

You can call yourself
man
gay
poet
who has a speech problem

just know those are labels
for us to use
they are not who we are

Comments

[Michael]

Kitty..you write beautiful poetry..like your haikus (which also have humor in them)...the poetry here has wisdom...I kept thinking of moving boxes labels..(ok in this box put the Gay man, tall, sensitive, co dependent dysfunctional, Italian, lonely, in search of...etc) and in that box..is well you get the idea..sort of like we carry with us packing slip labels as we go through life....I do that a lot...time to think out the label box:)

thanks for making me think and for reaching my heart..you always do in wonderous ways!

Michael....

[Michael]

Geez..my label (or parts of my label..sounds like a blip on a personal label/dating profile..yikes...ROFLMAO!

Michael..the Italian Gay Blade Label?