Intersubjective Bootstrap Poem by Josh Mitteldorf

If all life is a dream, is it your dream or mine?
And why should our two worlds agree?
An answer avails if we're both The Divine,
At our source, I am you and you're me.
Though it seems that we're separate (I trust you'll concur)
It's a stretch to conceive "one great soul"—
Still, we sense there are times when our boundaries blur
Our designs coalesce as one whole.

If together we've dreamed up this life, with its flaws
And its numberless wonders untold,
Might we harness the power of resonant thought—
Who can say what new worlds will unfold?
We might rein back our species to mind Nature's laws,
We might dream exploitation to cease.
If we own all the battles that e'er man has fought,
Will we finally co-create peace?