Who I Am

I must give credit for my inspirations, this poem is inspired by Hazel:

http://hazel-oakwillowash.blogspot.com/2011/07/i-am-one_9266.html

and Plotinus, Ennead V, 1 and 3

Who Am I

I am the breeze that rustles the leaves,

I am the wind that waves o’er the grain.

I am the sun that enlightens day,

I am the dark that quiets the night.

I am the dress that a flower wears,

I am the leaf that shadows the ground.

I am the heart that measures the time,

I am the soul that feels its passage.

I am the moth that flutters and flits,

I am the bird that soars in the sky.

I am the fish that swims in the sea,

I am the worm that crawls in the ground.

Oh Plotinus, you knew me before

I ever was awakened to be,

I am who was and always will be,

Ever, also the one, mind, and soul.

Three Hypostases in my own self

I was engendered always by Love,

and to her again I shall return,

for I am he who is all in all.

I am now twixt was and will be,

I am truth seeking satisfaction.

I am sense seeking a joyful bliss,

I am knowledge in search of something.

I am subject of experience,

I am object of those who know love.

I am I, the one who now writes,

I am the he who has also thought.

Who am I, if you now might inquire?

I the one of whom Menander wrote,

when he first came to know me, saying:

“The mind is a god in each of us.”

                                               

July 25, 2011

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