Sanat

Strip the name, strip the story
Strip the years of accumulated glory
What remains when every mask is gone?
What remains when every role is done?

There is something watching
That was never born
Something underneath the weather
That has never worn a storm

The witness is the only currency
The only thing they cannot take
The witness is the only currency
The only thing that doesn't break

You are not your anger
You are not your grief
You are not the narrative
You are not the belief
You are the awareness
That contains them all
The space between the lightning
And the thunder's fall

This moment - this is the only thing
That is certainly true
Not the past you carry
Not the future pulling you

The witness is the only currency
The only thing they cannot take
The witness is the only currency
The only thing that doesn't break

The seeker and the sought
Are the same pair of eyes
The observer and the observed
Were never otherwise

Be present when you hold
What you think you own
Be present when you work
In the field you've sown
Be present with the ones
You won't get back again
The witness doesn't flee from joy
The witness doesn't flee from pain

The witness is the only currency
You brought it here from somewhere else
The witness is the only currency
The one thing that survives the self