The Author in Authority

I'm your reflection
but you're not where
the light comes from.
We share the same birthright.

I am the soil for your words
but I won't resell the seeds.
I absorb the teaching until it's mine.
The fruits are mine to give.

I am a stream
that grows by learning
I'll take your water
but the movement is my own.

Our bodies are separate
but our source is the same.
That makes us one
though not the same.

We share the life
that flows us
or should I say
the life shares us?

One doesn't find himself
by staring at his reflection in the world.
One creates the reflection
after finding the source of it inside.