WHO AM I?

[Guest guest]

God and I in space alone and nobody else in view,

" And where are the people, O Lord, " I said,

" the earth below and the sky o'er head

and the dead whom once I knew? "

 

" That was a dream, " God smiled and said,

" A dream that seemed to be true.

There were no people living or dead,

there was no earth, and no sky o'er head;

there was only Myself---in you. "

 

" Why do I feel no fear, " I asked,

" meeting you here this way?

For I have sinned I know full well--

and is there heaven, and is there hell,

and is this the Judgement Day? "

 

" Nay, those were but dreams, "

the Great God said,

" Dreams that have ceased to be.

There are no such things as fear or sin;

There is no you--you never have been--

There is nothing at all but Me. "

 

--Ella Wheeler Wilcox--