Ojai Valley Overlook

People tell themselves these things.
They take them personally,
But they all share the message.

Reversible assertions
With terms ten or a hundred
Times older than the persons

Who eye them, mouth them, sign them,
Tap them back out into space,
How could these ever refer

Precisely to single souls,
Single egos, single skulls,
Individuals? You stare

Longingly at the sentence
Anyway, and you whisper,
It’s for me. It’s meant for me.