Eric’s Writing Corner

NaPoWriMo Day 14

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I was going through my library this past weekend and I cam across a collection of daily meditations of Thomas Merton’s writings. The quote for April 13 was as follows:

If we take our vulnerable shell to be our true identity, if we think our mask is our true face, we will protect it with fabrications even at the cost of violating our own truth.
-Raids on the Unspeakable

Which then led to this:

Do I know who I am?
Or am I a victim of my own
mistaken identity?

Is it the physical only
that offers each person
his or her a unique distinctiveness?
But the soul, the filling
inside the shell which
spills out as light into darkness or

darkness attempting to
engulf the light, yes
the soul can be your identity.

Can it be?
Is that that the case
in which you can overcome

your mistaken identity.