today

And So It is

and so it is

that now
only a facsimile
of me
goes on
into the night
only the depths
of light within
that animate this shell
are real
and there is breath
and action and non-action
and none of it is me
none of it is real
even though I seem to live and breathe
it is not so
and so it is

only God

is all there is.