Testo What Is I?

(Inspired by oskar loerke's ?nächtliche körpermelancholie?)

What am I when I am sleeping
what is my body when I'm not awake
who am I when I am dreaming
and the world (you see) is far away

am I the dream or am I the dreaming/
sleeping body
am I what it seems
or what I cannot see

and if I would lose my memories
would I be someone else
would I be anybody
somekind of ourselves

I can change the way I'm thinking
without controlling what I think
I can change the way I am
without knowing why/
how I can and all I ever was, am and will be
I had and have been
is only here and right now
that's what my/
our fear did find out

who is writing
down these lines
which mind is mine
is the answer unkind -
the question a bad sign?