you and your business 4/11/18

you are before the phenomenon of you.

your experience is only the belated curator.

before you were a you, you were.

you are all of time,

but appearing now, as only in time.

before your invention 

of the inventory of your identity,

you were already a you.

the wardrobe of self 

is only for false-appearance sake.

the beauty of this displacement

is for referential discovery,

both in it and of itself.

you can’t know-and-be at the same time

in a linear mind way of being.

flashlight on, flashlight off,

is the definition of our darkness personified.

as long you are sensory dependent,

truth is confirmationally reliant

on first-person second-hand accounts.

thus the wardrobe of self

is reflected into the reality-mirror.

if all of this was profoundly demystified

you would not claim a you,

and yet still overwhelmingly be . . .