Ask Yourself

How, lord —
How
How could You
Be

The Lord answers thus
Dear child
I am not —
Nor are you

You experience —
Which means, you think
Which means
You think there is you, thinking —
About something or someone
Me, the world, the other

You experience
You are —
You are aware

Why ask me, then
How am I aware
Why not ask yourself —
How you
Are aware —
If, at all
You are —

Why ask me
How I am
Ask yourself
How you, are —

Neither you, nor I
Are — aware, or otherwise
There is only
Something
That is not something

And That —
Which is not even That
Is all there is
Neither there, nor not there
No one can say
Anything of That —
Which is not That

You and I may think
We are It —
Free to think
Whatever we think

But That —
It —
No one can ever say
What It is, or is not

All I — and you
Can say is
That we, are not —

Are what
We say