This, Or That

What’s the simplest thing
The fact of being
Not being this — or that
But just being

And that simplicity
Is the most obvious, ubiquitous
Must mundane, ordinary
And unexciting thing
In the entire universe

Like space —
Everywhere — never not there
Impossible to un-conceive
Un-imagine
Un-be

And so — to avoid —
Overlook and not be bored
Like a log of wood
That unimaginably
Un-engaging, un-exciting
Un-motivating, un-moving
Un-giving, un-producing
Un-meaning

Ubiquity —
We live our entire lives
From birth till death —
Being —
This
Or that

But that’s the nature —
Of being
It itself would rather be
A log of wood
Than —
Unimaginably, crushingly
Being
Without being — this
Or that

It would swallow and keep swallowing
The infinite space of an unending universe

Jus to keep being
This or that
Birthlessly
Deathlessly

Only in us —
It imagines
That it’s this —
Or that

That’s birthing
And dying