A Single Word

eric mccarty
2 min readMar 9, 2021
A Single Word — Headless Now — Poetry — Moca McCarty Photo

A single word:

to say self — as if a single word could fit for our description. Truly we are the multitudes of Whitman, a verb better said than noun, a never ceasing process. We are being. Yes, there is a self, a certain sense of feeling unique and completely formed as an individual functioning in the world. It’s our own separate belief of importance, as well as the sense that keeps us apart from others. Yet to be a self is narrow in its…

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eric mccarty

Writer, prose poetry, meditation teacher and lifetime student