What you think you know, you don't,
And what you don't, you do,
If you know that you don't know
What you think is true.
From inside out, you're pretty sure
That you are who you are.
But then, from outside in, some comment
Leaves a door ajar.
You cannot help but take a peek
At what your life has been
To someone else, a person whom
You now can glimpse within.
And there you are a stranger to
Yourself, for what you see
Is nothing like the person who
You thought that you would be.
So who are you? What's the truth
Of you? You'll never know.
For there is simply nothing, nothing,
Nothing simply so.
Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. Free for personal or non-commercial use.
Audio and Video Music: White River. By Aakash Gandhi. Music free to use at YouTube.