Presence

What if I am? What if I am not?
Categorical complements
rush to take their place beside “I am.”

Wait a minute!
Presence is never in a hurry.

And the roles —significantly—
are to be donned and shed as equals.

After all,
it is not the narrative that creates the plot,
but the narrator.

As for happiness,
one cannot imagine it,
only recognize it.

Reality surpasses imagination.