SILENT WITNESS

Among numbers, I am zero.

I am without value

But I add value to everything else.

I remain an enigma, a singularity.

You can approach me by many paths,

Getting closer every day,

But you can never reach me.

I am the only example

Of non-existence.

I am the Sun.

You see because of me,

But you cannot see me.

I do not twinkle,

But the air moved by me makes stars do so.

I am beyond life and living

I am nothing till you stand before me.

You think you see yourself in me.

It is an illusion, a distorted illusion.

You still come to me

As there is no other way

Of knowing your face!

Among desires I am the probability.

I am the cause of all effort.

I determine hope and despair.

I am the mind.

I do not travel.

I just reach.

I can be everywhere,

I can be nowhere.

I am not matter,

I am not energy,

I am not thought.

I am from where

Matter, energy, thought

All emanate…

As I quietly watch the world

Alone inside out watching life unfurl

To life’s incomplete completeness

Oh the pains of a silent witness…

© tgk