THE UNIVERSAL SPIRIT

I am here and there but I’m not really here nor there

I am here and everywhere but am not really anywhere

I am black as the dark but am really very bright

I am terribly wrong but also definitely quite right.

I am very bad but that also is really very good

I am hungry but I also provide the tasty food

I am also the keeper of time but am also timeless

I am the sharp point for that makes it so pointless

I am the radiant morning and I’m also the darkest night

I act with a lot of courage but shrink with fright

I seek the law and act on that which is so unlawful

I am totally sinless and yet am so completely sinful

I am the nothing or zero which is really more than something

I am several things put together to form just one thing

I am the bright sun as well as the cool moon

I am the terrible curse as well as the blessed boon

I am that which is living but really brain dead

I am the very tail though I haven’t lost my head

I am that which is concrete though abstract I may be

I am completely blind though I can really look and see

I am the Holy word as well as a trivial crumb

I am the spoken Truth while remaining so dumb

I am just an unknown who has lived with recognition

I am just a failure who has gained distinction

I am the giver of good fortune though I remain unlucky

I am the ruler of the universe and the ruled

I am the fooler of the world and the fooled

I am the giver of life and the receiver of death

I am the sustainer of poverty and the provider of wealth

I am so undernourished but the fountainhead of good health

I’m with it but without it; I’m it but really not it

For I’m the everlasting so called universal spirit.