i am you and you are me.

How do I say I am everything unlike you

when you constitute me

somewhere

in some words which I picked as I talked to you

in some hand gestures as you which my body reiterates time to time unknowingly

in some music taste which I lifted out of your playlist

in some memory that I shared with you

in some bone of my body

Or even an atom

you live inside my body somewhere

How do I make myself realise that you are a part of me

we exchanged a part of ourselves in the slightest moment that we shared

i changed. I grew

because of people who came into and exited from my life

and added to my worldliness

drew me closer to the person that I ought to be

I am the culmination of people like you that I will encounter in my lifetime and I will not know who i truly am till my body turns to ash because that would be the day I would cease to have all human contact.

the way a land turns barren and no flower can blossom in it and add to its persona.

the way the night fades away and no star can twinkle in the sky and add to its beauty.

if we leave parts of ourselves in every person we meet

does it not mean i am you and you are me.