Who is Speaking
Monologue
by W.S. Merwin, from The Pupil
as we say
meaning it literally
and you do
hear it when
we speak
for the voice addressing you
is your own
though we know now
that the you
we are speaking to
is not the person
we imagine
yet we go on telling you
day after day of the person
we imagine
ourselves to be
forgetting as we tell you
learning even from joy
but forgetting
and you hear
who is speaking
you hear it all
though you do not listen
