When you thought that you knew that you were there
My fantasy became the reality of what you thought that you were
The place where dreams lived outside my head
Where we'll never have to question death
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FORGIVING EVERYTHING is a phrase that appears about half way through this Part Six, which was the first one that I read, so I've come full circle. Now, of course, I know the whole of it. The central character claims she is becoming more than a soul, but the extent of her transformation and the nature of her future identity aren't clear. What is clear is the dream-like nature of what has transpired throughout parts 1-5. My conclusion with all the reference to interlocking dreams is that this whole poem is an artist's reverie in which she unleashed her imagination to create a wondrous scenario of human life with its emotional conflicts, defeats, recoveries and reconciliations played out on a cosmic stage which in the end is revealed to be a metaphor for our very human, terrestrial existence. And what a wonderful poem it is! !