Till Grave

Rock — is
Without knowing

That it is a rock
So — is, a cat
Foetus, newborn, asleep
Brain damaged
Cadaver

To be — is
To be

That
Is the only given
Unknowing, un-being
Is
Rock, chair, cadaver
Cat

To be — is

Is not
The same as to be — aware
Nor
The same as being

Being refers to — being aware
That
Is not a given

To cat, brain damaged
Newborn, asleep, the dead

Being, being aware
Of
Is the only awareness

That is — the fall
Human condition
Split — and

The drive
Behind all reaching, religions
Devotions, practices
Love and longing

Till grave

On this side
Of the grave
Awareness permits
No experience
No abiding state

But only a concept —
Of nondual awareness
Unity consciousness
Unsplit duality
Or freedom