Emerging featuring Maitreyee Joshi

It is so hard when the strangest stranger

Is the one who speaks with your voice

And yet, not your voice.

This ghost who has moved in

Haunting and shaking chains in the middle of the night

When all you wanted was a drink of water.

And now it wants to keep you up

To listen to what it has to howl.

It is so hard when you are occupied

By a temporary version

That threatens to squat forever.

Modulating your voice

Fixing the way you stand, sit and take space

And be an appendage.

When all you want to be is whole.

It is so hard

To emerge out of yourself

Just to be you.