Not-duality

What I am
Is not present, but absent
Whenever I look for this I, I find
No one
Present

My apparent presence, then, is absence —
This absence — must be both
My apparent presence
And the absence of that apparent presence

This absence is not absent
In the way my apparent presence is absent
Nor is my absence present
In the way my apparent presence
Seems present but is found absent

This absence — neither present nor absent —
Is both my apparent presence
And my apparent absence

What I am
Is neither present nor absent, in actuality
And both present and absent
Apparently

In other words —
Whatever I say about
What I am
Would be false

In other words —
There are no teachings, no words
No expressions of
Non-duality — that is —
This absence, neither present nor absent

All so-called teachings of non-duality —
Are at best expressions of
Not-duality —
The negation of both counterparts —
Of duality

What remains
Cannot be stated
By any word, noun, or adjective —

Presence
Awareness
Consciousness
Emptiness
Void
Self
Brahman
God

For doing so — would at once
Draw what remains
Into the realm
Of duality