This was inspired by the wonderfully abrupt way that a dodgy Facebook geezer approached a female acquaintance some years back...
I think he probably had romantic intentions. So yes, "You there!" was the perfect opening line.
You there!
You! And thus I name you...
You are a "you" distinct from any "me"
you may encounter. They say you stand apart
in a realm of your own devising
where he tells me that I would fear to tread.
She watches you. Eyes haunt you. I want you.
You are not beyond me. You there!
You! And thus I summon you. Approach
and be known, friend. Carnally or Biblically
I covet your neighbourly ass, come warm my guest chair
drink thin soup and wait for dark. You there!
For "you" are "there". I place you. I locate
your self in the world of selves. Unique and one,
individually rapt and indivisible,
inseparable from identity, your own sense of "yourself." You there!
You! I fathom your nature for you are there
by definition. You're present but tiny
a seed at the heart of everything. Embedded,
grit in oyster or gene in cell,
or minute caterpillar, asleep in the rose of the World.
You there, you! I am talking to you.
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