Apophaticalypse Now*

*Apophatic (adj.)

1.	Pertaining to knowledge of God obtained through negation rather than positive assertions.
2.	Of or relating to the belief that God can be known to humans only in terms of what He is not (such as `God is unknowable').

I am not 
a
liberal
conservative
democrat
or 
republican.

I am not 
left
right
center
top 
or 
bottom.

I am not 
the past
the future
or a 
vulture
of any
obnoxious culture.

I am not
my name
either in lower
or UPPER case,
but rather
a walking talking
being that’s not
a product of the state.

I am not
white
black
yellow
purple
vermillion
or any color
you are told to hate.

I am not 
a cat lick
muzzle him
or achoo,
nor a Darwinian monkey
flinging its poo
and laughing at you
from behind the bars
of the human zoo.

I am not
an airy-fairy new ager
or angst-filled teenager.

I am not
a poet
an employee
nor any other 
appellation
the label makers 
try to stick on me.

What you see
is just a spacesuit 
I use
to walk across
the stage called Earth,
riding my humble Chevy buggy 
to and from work,
the supermarket,
Popeyes or Portillos,
(sometimes UPS)
and meet other
cast members
of this planet
to create
romcoms
sitcoms
workcoms
and other
wonderful
adventures.

This is just the
chaff surrounding
my soul’s golden wheat.

The candy wrapper
which hides a layer
of white chocolate
yumminess
others may find
too sweet.

Maybe
that’s what 
you think
looking at my outside;
but as far as 
my inside goes
(and it goes pretty far--
deeper than the depths
of the James Webb
telescope…)
I just am
and 
so 
are 
you.

I am who I am.

Hey,
wait a minute…
Didn’t someone else
go by this name?

Hmm, 
that’s odd,
I think it was God.

If that’s the case,
and God is “I Am”
and I am 
who I am
and you are 
who you are,
then God 
must might may be
within you
and 
me.

That’s all 
you need 
to know
in your now
forever more.

As
I AM
dreams this world
into paradise
through 
8 billion 
pairs of eyes.