I AM I

I AM I

Dream, dream, dream
When am I going to realize it totally?
No time is real and there is no when
Now, Now
I am neither liberated nor in bondage
I AM I
Whether I am it or not
I AM I
Whether I cry or sit still
Whether I remember or not
Whether I can see the dreams as dreams or not
I AM I
Whether I appear to struggle, forget, live an ordinary life or not
I AM I
Whether I suffer, feel joy, or none of the above, still I AM I
Whether I have a beginning or not, whether I was born & died
I AM I
Whether the skies stay above or become part of the soil or not
Whether the birds sing or the flowers bloom and perfume or not
I AM I
Whether son or daughter, wife or husband, father or mother
I AM I
Kin and kith, a stranger or a friend, child of a mother, or mother of a child
I AM I
Sinner or saint, killer or just
I AM I
Politics, science, education, knowledge, interest in the world or not, so what?
I AM I
Words, sentences, phrases, long and communicating absolutely nothing
I AM I
Morning and night
Sleeping and waking, dreaming all along
I AM I
Years, days, hours, sand in the hourglass
I AM I
Here, there, everywhere,
I AM I
Somebody, nobody, king, beggar or this and that
I AM I
Heaven, hell, earth, sky or the Milky Way
I AM I
While drinking, eating, having sex
I AM I
Mad, intoxicated, out of my mind,
I AM I
Priest, rabbi, holy saint,
I AM I
Frustrated, failing, or succeeding
Feeling the ‘I’ or not
I AM I
Needing you, needing me, needing this or that
Needing God
I AM I
You did good, you are bad, don’t do this or that
I AM I
Thinking, thinking, thinking, still I AM I
Feeling, loving, hating, touching, and seeing
I AM I
I live, I is, I dies
I AM I
Names, forms, places, stages, phases, chapters, periods in life
I AM I
Young age, middle age, old age
I AM I
Married, divorced, belonging to you or you belonging to me
I AM I
This life, last life, next life
I AM I
Ups, downs, laughter, pacifier, tranquilizer
I AM I
Concepts, beliefs, tendencies, habits
I AM I
Call me mother, daughter, wife, call me friend, sister, whore or what you like
I AM I
Love God, serve all or be a bum under a bridge
Still I AM I
Ravana, Hanuman, Arjuna, Kauravas,
Be on this side of the army or that side
I AM I
Every reincarnation, every avatar that came and went
I AM I
No beginning and no end
No cause or reason
I AM I
January 02, 1997