cogito, ergo sum.
René Descartes
Discoure on Method, 1637
as we step
onto the elevator
of life,
we do not know
where or when
we will alight.
who
what
why
i am is
uncertain,
even to myself––
but that
i am,
even if
an idea,
or a dream,
or a proposition––
is a certainty
to me.
if no filament
of light
is ever lost––
then,
the only possibility
in the universe
is
to be––
by all the power
vested in me
by truth,
i am as abiding
as any galaxy or angel,
& every forever
thing.