Identity Crisis

Who am I now, the body asks
it can no longer say
that I am this or that because
"my job" has gone away;

There is a hole left in my life
it's there for all to see,
but mostly seen by "me" my self
for I created "me";

Identity defined
--so I would be unique
and be the special one on stage,
others to laud and speak;

Of me and my importance,
at least I thought I was,
but now an empty part it seems
a blank--, hole--, a pause--;

Now if I pause a moment,
stop thinking thoughts of fools,
then crisis becomes vapour,
and my thoughts stop short of rule;

My heart begins to open
"me-thoughts" begin to melt
into the air like Vapour,
the "me" in me is spent.

These concepts thus created
in mind were there to place,
me on the stage: an actor,
the Play of Me -mistake.

Suffering is the result, not of loss, but not accepting the loss. We hang on to things from our past, and keep them like shadows in our thoughts. The reason is because we use them to build up an image about ourself in our world, an image that ultimately only exists in our mind.
Crisis occurs when we realize that our made-up image (our mask) no longer fits the world around us. What is the mask hiding?

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