For what am I?

I

For what am I?
For whom am I?
Oh, thou concept of reality,
Name me my name.

Once ago I had been born;
Once from now I would be grown.
But in this youth, eternally
Am I ensnared -- tamed.

I call upon thee,
In the name of thyself and thy lesser, Truth,
My doubt, answer me
Else I be consumed in emptiness, the wrath.

For what are you?
For what you must be, are you.
If you are not, then I am not.
For can the mountain stand without the sand's soul?

For whom are you?
Then for whom am I?
We are for one and too for all;
Be first for thySelf.

Yet, name me a name,
Swiftly, my heart becomes lame;
And if not thee,
Then thy servant shall have me.

Then venture with me,
Not without, but within.


II


You have heard of this land
And know of its being.
See thee anything but darkness?

I see not, but know
The firey redness about us,
The firey redness below.

Then let us leave this physical epmptiness
And journey into the All of Nothingness

Further inward have we gone, to the core.
Turn ye around and look inside the boar.

I can not see;
A veil does hide me from me.

Then re-turn, we shall
See what ye be.


III

This that ye behold,
this whiteness in nothingness,
Do you seek.
Name It a name.

Personality supreme,
I would call it Magnet
For it draws and repels me.

Ask it its name.

Light that shines within;
Bush that burns betrothed in my body
Know ye thy name?

I am Atman, your Atman.
I am thy Life, thy Death;
Thy Mind, the Heart, am I.
I am the specter, Atman.

If such is so,
I would question thee:
If we are one, then
Who are we?

Your body is the Oracle,
And I its Apollo. For
A veil of earth doth separate we.

Who we are can never be told,
By word nor phrase how'er bold.
We are not philosopher's speech
For we change as Proteus and the chameleon:
Ask not myself who are we,
Ask whom would I be.

Yet name my name
Greatest two,
and if not thee
thy servant shall have me.

It is done.