THE TENTH MAN : 16




How?


I cannot know what I am,
For that would need a knower to know it.
I can only be; unconscious of being at all?

But then there would still be an I, an I that is,
And that is unconscious of something that is
And is called being.

How could there be any thing at all,
Either being or I?

Where could there be for any thing to be
Extended in space?
When could there be for anything to be
Extended in time?





Who?


I cannot say it,
I cannot know it,
I cannot be it.

Because I am it,
And all it is I am.



(© HKU Press, 1966)
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