I Am

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I am who I am, before the 
sound, before the claim,
  Before the world decided I 
should answer to a name.
  No title on my forehead, no story in my hand,
I stand unclothed in being, just as I am.
  My brother is what he is, untouched by my belief,
No label carved in stone, no measure of relief.
  We meet beyond the mirror 
where no shadows remain,
  Face to face in presence, 
not divided by a name.
  Every breath releases
What was never true,
  Every thought dissolves into
What simply is.
  I AM and that is freedom,
I AM unowned, unbound.
  I AM no name can hold me,
I AM where truth is found.
  I AM before all choosing,
I AM beyond all shame.
  I AM this is the truth now,
I AM no name.
  Everything is what it is, without a mask or role,
No word has ever touched the   depth of what we call the whole.
Nothing carries labels in the silence of the One,
  All meanings fall like leaves 
when the work is done.
  I reside in the nothingness of God,
Not empty, not apart
  But full beyond imagining,
A fire with no spark.
  Here the mind releases,
Here the seeker ends,
  Here the self remembers
What it never lost.
  I AM and that is freedom,
I AM unowned, unbound.
  I AM no name can hold me,
I AM where truth is found.
  I AM before all choosing,
I AM beyond all blame.
  I AM this is the truth now,
I AM no name.
  I am the pure abstraction of love.
Not feeling source.
  I am the pure potential of self.
Not becoming being.
  I am not born, I do not end.
I do not rise, I do not fall.
  I am the space where all appears
And disappears.
  I am
I am
  No face to defend,
No past to explain,
  No future to earn,
No loss, no gain.
  I AM the ground of freedom,
I AM the open door.
  I AM the silence singing,
I AM forevermore.
  I AM the truth before words,
I AM the fire, the flame.
  I AM this is the truth now,
I AM.
  This is the truth.
I am.