What Is My Name? Poem by Justin Aptaker

why does it always hit me when i'm high?
knocks me down,
you level me

when I have witnessed the world pass me by
a muted sound
a memory

just how many times can i possibly die?
yet walk the ground
a fallacy

when angels and stars all fall from this sky
no one around
to enlighten me

a symmetry
could even be found
when dogs and fossils are starting to fly

trigonometry
what goes comes around
and so it must be with I too, I

tithemi to apothecary
what timmy hath name? what hath what i set down?
set away, not for gain, nor ends pains, nor to strive
forget symmetry, here's euphony: in contemporary American, i "take away from"