To myself

A little background of knowing, W.S. Merwin is an American poet and was writing during the anti-war movement and studied buddhism. The poem was W.S. notiong to himself all the thoughts going on in his head. "I am sure you were here a moment before..." This quote to me represents when you lose someone, it is kind of hard to understand that they are really gone. All you can think about is that they were there before and you just cannot believe that they are gone. Also this poem comes across as someone just trying to recognize themselves. They were someone, and throughout all the changes life can bring they completely changed so he tries to remember who he was. If he could just remember what it was like before losing himself then maybe he could be happier again.