Assumption And Perception

What we call objects
Are only objectifications
Of the subject

We cannot see the subject
Nor call, an object, subject

We assume
We experience ourselves
As the subject
So everything observed
Becomes objectified

Despite senses' evidence
Seeing an object
In the mirror
We cannot conceive
Ourselves as object

The image — the object —
In the mirror requires
A subject —
The beheld object is
The subject's own reflection —
Objectification
Of itself

Each of us persists
In assuming
Ourselves as subject

In seeing
Others as objects
Ourselves as objects
Still assuming
Ourselves a subject

Between assumption
And perception

Life flows