Question
So you go to have this talk with yourself
and the self wants to know, "Why when
you write do you say, You this, You that
and not, I this, I that?"
I have a ready reply yet the cloudy
remains of old habit make me think
twice before answering
Answer
Being the second person singular and
plural, You allows for speech directed
to the self, to the other, both at once,
with no line between, maybe a comma
You preserves a unity of being to express
integral relations and You avoids focus on
the I as subject, the other as object
I regard You as a word of intimacy, humility,
while I presumes ultimacy and an authority
that the art and act of wording can claim
but not for itself
Still, once upon a time I took a vow
to take my authority upon me
and so it is, and shall be
