Oneness

Oneness by Mahnaz Roshan

I soaked in the world
until its edges softened.
What I was taught to divide
slowly learned how to merge
breath into breath,
story into story.
I carried many names,
many places,
many fears
that were never truly mine.
They dissolved
when I listened closely enough
to the silence beneath them.
Roots taught me this
nothing survives alone.
The earth does not ask
where the rain comes from.
The sky does not choose
which bodies deserve light.
So why did we?
I am no longer standing apart.
I am standing within.
Your sorrow hums in my bones.
Your joy rises in my chest.
What heals you
reshapes me.
This is not arrival.
This is remembrance.
The long marination of the soul
where separation forgets its name
and humanity returns
to one body,
one breath,
one becoming.