So Many Hats (or Veils)

We play many roles in life and wear many hats: the human, the individual, the romantic, the man or woman, the parent, etc.

Can you make a connection with someone who seems so foreign to you, someone who wears hats you can't begin to understand? Hats that - on first glance - may even seem threatening to you?

Is it possible to wear many hats without losing yourself, to integrate them into one "I"?

These are some questions I explore in my poetry, questions that float around in my head, under my own many hats. Underneath

all my hats,

my eyes--

they stay the same. Windows

into my soul,

that's 'who

"I"

am. I am not

any of my hats

or roles. I'm just another

kindred

soul.