What is man? and who am I?
Knee tall to cricket? High as sky?
Blessed to live or doomed to die?
What is man? and who am I?
I stand star-struck on earth and look
At all that space includes;
I realize (though not with eyes)
I stand where naught intrudes;
For inner space is broader far
Than hearing, seeing, feeling are.
(The greatest space is solitude.)
I include all, yes, all in me;
Everything that I can see
(O not with eyes) or know.
I realize that this is me,
Ah, this is my reality,
The I which cannot come or go.
This inner space encompasses
All that outer space would be.
I realize identity.
This is man! O this is me!
