And I grow

Smaller,
Smaller,
Smaller,
And I dwell
Lost-er,
Lost-er,
Lost-er,
As I deepen
In knowledge,
As I expand
In understanding.
For moments
I am obscured,
For moments
I am enlightened.
I have conceived
The idea of
My nothinglessness,
I have perceived
The emotion.
I comprehend
The notion
Of
All is vain.
I see
The transparency,
The emptiness
Of what in mind
Seems to pertain.
I somehow grasp
As an instance
The entirety
Of the illusive
Distance.
I
And as
And since
I,
I can claim,
I yet have not
Accepted