Why Do I Know What I Know? Poem by Kenneth Maswabi

I have been to the classroom of life
I was taught science and mathematics
I was taught English and medicine
I was taught ethics and anatomy
I was taught geometry and biology
I was taught surgery
To cut through the threads of life
And sail through the ocean of my life
In a voyage of success

I looked through the mound of my knowledge
I saw nothing about me
I saw nothing about my soul
I saw nothing about my silence
I saw nothing about my spirit
I saw nothing about my Love

I looked deep into myself
I saw the lake of life
Chaotic and full of sorrow
I looked deeper in my heart
I saw the wind of silence
I saw it blowing over the lake
And then everything was still
Everything was silent
I was all-alone with myself
I was myself
I was my Soul
and Silence had engulfed me
I was emptiness
I was a new born

In this moment
Stillness became my existence
Silence became my breath
I fell in Love with this kind of knowledge
I had stumbled across the Truth
And the Truth was my home
My home was Love
And I was totally in Love with Love
I was empty of myself
I was full of Love