That-Which-Perceives-Form

Form
Is that-which-perceives form
That-which-perceives form
Is both form and
That-which-is-not-form

That-which-is-not-form
Is that-which-perceives form —
And form

No birth, no death
Can therefore apply
To that-which-is-not-form —
For that-which-perceives form
Is form

To what then
Do these apply —
But to a conception, a misapprehension
That form
Is not that-which-perceives form
And that that-which-perceives form
Stands apart —
Away from form

A ghost

Yet, another’s form —
That-which-is-perceived —
Is born and dies
For that-which-is-not-form
Which is also
That-which-is-form
In the one perceiving

To what, then, does the one
Perceiving death and birth in another’s form
Apply these labels

To what but —
Birth and death within themselves —
In that-which-is-not-form
Reflected through
The form of another

Perceiving the form of another
As only form —
And not that-which-is-not-form
Within the other

And yet, how could that-which-perceives form
Perceive that-which-is-not form
When that-which-is-not-form
Is both form
And that-which-perceives form