Who The F**k Are You!

Hippie wisdom

Who The F**k Are You?

You hear and you forget,

I see and yet I remember,

Do myself and understand for myself.

But, the unspeakable empty mind,

Sees without seeing!

Does without doing!

Stays, bereft staying!

Gives without giving!

Feels, without feeling!

Sings without singing!

Says not really saying!

Senses without sensing!

Moves without moving!

Halts without stopping!

Abides, never tolerating!

Feels, beneath all feeling,

Breathes without breath!

Thinks bereft all thought.

Thinks beneath thoughts!

Unaware, of being aware!

Bends bereft ever bending!

Senses, beneath sensation!

Bows down never bowing!

Stands taller when bowed!

Moves without movement!

Moves, somehow unmoved.

Accepts without rejections!

Dwells without inhabiting!

Abandons without leaving!

Spreads, without spreading!

Changing, remains the same;

Becomes, without becoming!

Remains the same, changing.

Influences, never influencing.

Searches, bereft even seeking!

Expands, without expansion!

Yields, without ever budging!

Incites without ever inciting!

Knows never really knowing!

Motivates, without a motive.

Embraces, without embracing!

Flows, never actually moving!

Slows down, without braking!

Accelerates, never going faster.

Steers, not touching any wheel!

Achieves heights, bending low!

Goes places never quite leaving,

Elucidates not really clarifying!

Obfuscates without ever hiding!

Obfuscates without influencing!

Explains, without explanations!

Questions not asking a question.

Misdirects without misdirecting!

Illuminates never shedding light!

Begs without ever really begging!

Forgets, never even remembering!

Confronts, bereft actually facing!

Evades without any real evasion!

Acquires without quite acquiring!

Distributes, without distributing!

Answers, without ever answering!

Provokes without ever provoking!

Entices without leading anywhere!

References, without any references!

Appraises without ever appraising!

Estimates, without ever estimating;

Assesses, without any assessments!

Calls out to everyone with no voice!

Disperses, without really dispersing!

Stimulates without any stimulation.

Encourages, without encouragement!

Negates not really negating anything.

Proclaims without any proclamation!

Embraces without clutching anything!

Me, myself, and I may never explain it!

For who we become just depends on me!

Me thinks, there's One indisputable thing!

Something which me, myself, and I may agree upon!

Words are the refuge of saints and sinners alike!

Claiming to be too good to use their dictionary!

Fatuous sales pitch of any aspiring con artists!

Sheeple forever fighting and following money!

Frequently arguing over who is still arguing!

The lights are left on when nobody is home!

Never actually uncertain if they're certain!

Uncertain, as to what uncertainty means!

Some panicking yelling the sky is falling,

Eternally wandering in circles gibbering.

Ever cloudy muddy waters cannot hide!

The spark within us all that cannot die.

Everybody is fighting battles, I know nothing about!

Knowing the kind of stupidity, we're all capable of!

Knowing the sad clowns me, myself, and I may be!

Knowing habits are the end of all real awareness!

Knowing the lights are left on, if nobody's home!

We try to avoid, any serious domestic disputes!

Especially, when we're the only ones involved!

Especially when there’s nobody else to blame!

So I try to be kind, to the spark inside us all!

Instead of screaming, who the f**k are you!

Beginning of course, with knowing myself!

Internal battles are often more surprising,

Sometimes we can all frighten ourselves!

Sometimes we frighten other people too.

Which I use to find my own way home!

When, life just seems too much for me!

When the world appears so very cold!

No matter how far, you might roam,

No matter how late you're arriving,

No place sparkles, quite like home,

No place is ever more welcoming.

There is just, no place like home,

When, we can't go home again!

Can't see the forest in the tree,

Can't even see, any tree bark!

Can't see our roots below us,

Or any tree within the forest.

So, won't you let me go down,

In sweeter Wonderland dreams,

And, Rockabye Sweet Baby James.

(James Taylor)