The You

The You.
a counterpoint
to the I;
to subjective I…
the You…

considered..
considered contextually
as The Object;
as the object
of subjective I.

yet a partner to the I;
seeking partnership.
ever seeking partnership
the You, and the I…
a coupling…

with the I…
Du und Ich;
You and I…
together sung
melodiously…

perhaps
romantically…
asking a question,
inviting a response:
“Was wissen du und Ich?”

“What do you and I know
uber irgendetwas;
about anything,
uber das ich;
about the self.

uber mich selber
about myself,
and especially…
about you,
uber dich…

posing syntactically…
e’en semantically,
as…
a stepbrother,
or a stepsister…

to the I…
as in…
You and I;
Du ind ich?”
Make observation listeners…

to what a poet once said:
“The child
Is father
to the man.”
What means this saw?

What is its true intent?
Perchance the younger
shall replace the elder;
as Jacob was to Esau.
The pronoun I…

generic, impersonal;
or indefinite.
a second-person pronoun,
can manage yet
to find its royal place,

not always seconded,
sentenced secondarily,
or perhaps, more so…
thirdly.
The You…

can proudly say
grammatically,
“You and I”
“Du und Ich”
Not “I and You.”

“Not “Ich und Du.”
rejected composition!
The You can rise up…
majestically;
in opposition to…

the I,
in liberation;
partner equally
with the I.
Prithee comrade, tell me,

declare to me
In honesty, with earnestness,
with sworn sincerity,
what would there be,
how could there ever be…

an I without a You?
It’d be merely a shadow
of the me…
a shadow of itself;
without the You.