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’s you thinking —
About something or someone
Me, the world, the other

Bottom line —
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

But, if you want a cheat-sheet
Here it is

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

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

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

But That —
It —
No one can ever say
What It is, or isn’t

All I — and you
Can say is
That we aren’t —

Are what
We say