I am.

I’ve moved with the Shakers,
Danced with the Quakers,
Laughed at the Fakers
And never left a footprint behind.

I’ve chased children through the forest,
Eating all their breadcrumbs,
Watched them lose their way,
And set them right again.

I am the sun and the air,
Or the son and the heir.
Maybe both.
I am nothing in particular.

I saw a man on a mountain,
I watched him crack stone,
I told him not to kill.
He didn’t understand.

I helped Man push his rock up his hill,
I helped Woman launch a thousand ships.
I was with her when she called for strength on the battlements,
Blood on her unsexed hands.

Everybody fights me,
Everybody for me,
Everybody over me
And everybody dies.
I wandered through their love for me.

I’ve walked through your dreams,
I’ve freed you from your nightmares,
I gave you imagination,
I feared your use of it.

I am what you say I am,
I am what you say I’m not.

I am indefinable.

I am unimportant in the grand scheme.
But I am still in it.