The Real World Poem by Ravi Kopra

"In a field I am the absence of field"

-Mark Strand in his poem, Keeping Things Whole

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In a field
I am an intruder into
the fullness of the field

In my absence
the field is the real field

My presences assaults
the essence of the field

The field does not have the same feelings
when I am in or out of the field

Wherever I am
I disturb my surroundings
I rob the realness of the things

The world I see is not the world
that would exist in my absence

Simply being of myself
the world changes by itself

So no wonder to each of us
a thing may mean a different thing

The degree of which is how much
we rob the realness of the thing.