Thinking I Am

Thinking I Am

Seeing myself —  

the experience already falls in line  

with the categories of thought  

that precede it:  

unity,  

and I‑ness. 

And so I am unfree  

to see myself as I am. 

For if experience is bound  

by forms,  

then whoever thinks he is free  

to see himself truly  

moves within those same constraints. 

And so? The solution:  

Drop the agenda. 

Neither self nor freedom  

can be sought  

as objects. 

The ‘I’ that thinks  

it is free,  

that asks  

these questions,  

dissolves  

into the forms that made it.