It is I

I was born out of a wisp in time,

But time wasn't born before me.

I stand as the sun when it shines

At night the men call me moon.

When the stars glow,

And men at heart feel ease,

It is but me who lives in their throb

It is I who with them sleeps.

I was born out of a mellow whim

And yet at my whim the world dreams

In my very dream, the stars tread

They wither like dust, in that very realm.

It is I, on whose strike the earth shakes

On my thought alone does the swans love make.

I am born out of love and fear,

And yet I invoke both

Each of my known has a name for me

Yet each is my own.

The rivers flow when I dance

And the winds blow at my breath

It is I alone to whom all are born

It is I alone who ferry all to death.

I was born when several expressed

Yet in my expression they were formed

And in me rests the love of all

In me rests all your thoughts.

I was born out of space and time

And yet am free of them both

The cosmos dances at the beats I drum

The ocean dances at my feet.

So in thought, leave behind those figures

And contemplate not within limits

I was born out of the limits on heavens

And yet I am the infinity.

I was born out of wills

So, in all wills do I stay

It is I alone hence, who shall live and die

It is I alone who shall walk free.