Tell Me Who Am I? Poem by Mohammad Younus

Tell me who am 'I'?
For 'I' accept not someone as my other?
Tell me not 'I' am a mortal being
'I' struggle to know my essential being
For 'I' is hidden inside me;
'I' asks me to meditate and contemplate...
...Who 'I' am?
'I' feel awed and disturbed...
...for 'I' find 'I' asking 'I';
'I' know not who says 'I';
To this 'I' questioned...
...who is 'I'?
'I' murmured in my soul's ear;
Why do you bother?
You and I! ...
...what's difference?
'I' got stunned and disturbed:
When 'I' said to me:
'Who knows 'I', knows divine'
Does this mean 'I' and divine are the same?
To this question even Mansur and Rumi remained mum...
'I' can only say this much:
'I' am the hidden secret of
my 'l',
Hidden deep within my conscience,
Deeper than a mystic dream;
So no longer shall 'I' ask: who am 'I'?

Mykoul