In Honour of Amergin

Amergin — the Milesian poet and one of the first humans to arrive in Ireland, and landing on the Beara Penninsula.

Who am I?

I am earth, I am air,

I am fire, I am water.

I am night, I am day,

I am darkness, I am light.

I am reason, I am spirit,

I am matter, I am mind.

I am not here, I am here.

I come from nothing, I am everything.

I am the particle and the whole,

I am the atom and the universe.

I am everything. I am nothing.

I am the idea and its realisation.

I am the beginning and the end,

I am what lies between.

I am the song and the silence,

The dancer and the dance.

I am the music and the musician,

The player and what is played.

I am the seed of life, I am the flower,

I am the mother and the child.

I am the womb and what is birthed.

I am the elder and the ancestor.

I am the hearth and the fire,

I am the wood and the flame.

I am the candle and the light.

I am the wax and the wick.

I am the shoreline and the sea,

I am the water and its wave.

I am the wind and its howling,

The breeze and the gale.

I am the tree and its trunk,

I am its branches and its roots.

I am the flower and the meadow,

I am the sky and the clouds.

I am peace, I am war.

I am hope, I am hopeless.

I am courage, I am fear.

I am not here.

I am here.

I am the transition between the two.

I am life, I am death.

I travel the world and stay home in my cave.

This poem came to me during meditation as imbas forosnaí.

(Photo of Beara Peninsula, south west tip of Ireland - the place where legend tell us the first humans arrived in Ireland.) (Photo by Fredy Jeanrenaud. I purchased a license to use this photo from Getty images.)