There is That In Me...

There is that in me—

I do not know what it is—

but I know it is in me.

Wrench'd and sweaty—

calm and cool then my body becomes,

I sleep—

I sleep long.

I do not know it—

it is without name—

it is a word unsaid,

It is not in any dictionary, utterance, symbol.

Something it swings on more than the earth I swing on,

To it the creation is the friend whose embracing awakes me.

Perhaps I might tell more. 

Outlines! I plead for my brothers and sisters.

Do you see O my brothers and sisters?

It is not chaos or death—

it is form, union, plan—

it is eternal life—

it is Happiness. 

~Walt Whitman

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