Searching

I am looking for that ultimate
which is
beyond form
beyond the world of appearances
beyond sound
beyond our personifications,
this intangible dynamic
abstraction above everything
yet it is everything.
I want to root my ethics in
this metaphysics not in
some boring culturally
limited personification;
so, I will accept myself
as an ephemeral maybe
accidental individual
incarnation of
this universal essence
this non-personal substance
and source of all,
I must know that I am
an insignificant part of
this unifying essence,
maybe humility is
the first of all ethics.

Rod Farmer