Hippocampus

Happiest Memories

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Treasure trove — the brain,

Where all of eternity resides in silence.

Memories glide through the mycelium,

Body, undisturbed by their presence. 

Absent, yet aware of life.

Such luxury it is,

To be human

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Pineal Gland

“You wander from room to room hunting for the diamond necklace that is already around your neck.”- Rumi

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Sometimes a deep agony
Rises in my soul,
My spirit feels abandoned,
Body lost.

Mind dissolves in wander,
Tears turn ocean
To the landscape of
My deserted face.

It’s not easy being Human.
The material wants movement,
A reason to wake up,
To nail a meaning to living.

As though it forgets
The wealth of itself
Is in its existence.
Why must the Being suffer?

In the drainage of my empty thoughts,
I have made infinite attempts
To close this discussion.

Please, let me live in those moments
Where I only remember
The good parts of my thought.

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Interhemispheric Fissure

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I searched at the doors of Faith, Spirit, Intellect,  The nature of my variability.

Yet, layer upon layer, It rains only shard mirrors, Wounding my flesh.

There is no end, no answer, No path to visibility.

Self, I have lost all my desires  To be seen  To be understood  I have fallen in love With my mysterious invisibility.

There is no bigger mind or a greater God. There is only you and your wheel of stories. Sleep child, appreciate the stories of human.

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The Brain Stem- Mid Brain

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This journey of barbaric discipline,
of unearthing myself,
oh, how desperately I sought myself.
How I wanted to be anything but human,
yet, layer upon layer, I only saw vibrance in this self.
Why must one escape being human?

Yet this journey of blatant cruelty
I have done, needed itself.
Now, even though I know nothing exists,
I remind myself:
there is this dream, so beautiful,
full of joy and abundance,
I must return to.

This is the dream I gift myself,
the dream of being human.

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The Frontal Lobe- Right Hemisphere

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The Frontal Lobe- Left Hemisphere

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The Temporal Lobe- Amygdala

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Oh how beautiful it is to see myself,

To feel my breath,

To touch the bejeweled decoration,

Stitched to perfection,

We call flesh.

Oh how beautiful it is to hear myself,

Oh heavens, is this what it’s like to be human?

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