Always remember that you are absolutely unique.
Just like everyone else.*

Whosoever:
Quaint and formal
Way of saying anyone
And everyone
Absolutely everybody,
As Vanessa A** would say

Whosoever:
Catch all term
That all too often
Neglects to hold the net
To full extent
Of love’s intent

Whosoever
I hear, mind glossing it
Into a faceless generic-
Impersonal broad spectrum
Sunscreen blocking the sunlight
Antibiotics friendly fire on all life

Whosoever:
Redefined by the whisper
Yes, everyone
Yes, anyone
Yes, whoever…
And yes, that one

That one you love
That one you loathe
That one who relaxes
That one who enrages
That one you idolise
That one you patronize

That one
That anyone
Is everyone
Is you, and I and they
A face and a name
Fingerprints and DNA

Inescapable corollary:
To the eyes of that one,
Whoever they may be,
I am also whoever
Even when I assume I should be seen
As this one

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*Often attributed to Margaret Mead, tentatively linked to a comment by Jim Wright in a 1971 editorial
** ‘Absolutely Everybody’, by Vanessa Amorosi
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