I Am Nothing

I am Nothing, so for me

Nothing is a Verity.

That Nothing comes of Nothing may be true,

But only when you Nothing do can aught begin

From your own Being.

It is the endless Din

Of doing and in doing as we spin

In Space leads Men to say they Nothing fear.

They do fear "Nothing"—true—

For Nothing less to them is Death,

But you in whom my spirit moves can sink

Into the Nothingness from which they shrink

And be reborn as lightly as a Breath.

[380] [27. I am Nothing]