I Am, Or Am I?
I am a child. I am a fool. I am alone. I am afraid.
I am. I think. I believe. I do. I see. I feel.
I cannot understand what it is that surrounds me.
I cannot understand what it is within me.
Am I alive? Am I an illusion? Who can tell me?
I fear. I fear so many things yet I fear nothing at all.
I never feel at home. I am always home.
I am lost. I wander about with my eyes closed
Groping with my hands for something to touch,
Something to give it all meaning.
I am not. Am I? Do I need help? What is help?
I am not me. I am you. Are you me, too?
Questions. I ask many questions. I find few answers
Quit looking. Stop! Arretez! Relax!
It will all be as it will all be. Do nothing.
Simply be. Can I? I don’t know because
I cannot know because I am not me, I am that.
It is all one. BE.
Do not DO. Just BE. Doing is not being.
Doing is hard. Being is easy.
I am not what I do. I am only what I am.
DO and BE!
I do - what? Something? Nothing?
I am. I simply am. Aren’t I?
Written 11/21/1975
by Stan Fisk