bait

In order to exist, one must call oneself into focus.
What we call a self is what we have called into focus.
We call it our self or my self. A sense of ownership exists.

If you do not call yourself into focus, you do not exist.
You call a different self into focus every time.
A different focus, a different self.

What is doing the calling?
You cannot see it with the self you continue creating.
You can only see it by being it and none other.

When you are that doing the calling
you have died before you die
and are truly lively.

The one doing the calling is not
the one you think you are
nor the one you feel you are
nor the one you dangle like bait
before the eyes of others.

We are not a who.
We are a what.
And not even that.

As soon as we open our mouths we are lying.
None of us like that, so let's call it creativity.
We are creative endeavors calling ourselves into focus.