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Phenomenology of the Soul

Mark A. Murphy

Where is the soul of man to be found?
In dreams?

A boy prays,
struggling with the thought.

“What if I should not wake tomorrow,
but continue to dream,
and if I should not wake

from that dream, but find myself caught
in a perpetual dream-loop,
then what of the familial world,

mother and father dear?” As a younger child
he imagined himself unable
to escape his world of dreams.

Now he believes he is still dreaming
when he thinks
he might be awake.

“Perhaps I’ve been stuck
in this dream for as long as I am
able to remember.

Perhaps there is no way out.”
His heart leaps within him, stirring his soul
to doubt God.

As a grown man, the former boy dreams
of waking from his trance,
no nearer to finding absolution.

His only consolation
to be found in the music of remembering,
between ambush and confession

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