How I Fight

If I am,
then I am.  

You say, that’s ridiculous,
it need not be said,
is obvious.  

You say it makes no sense but
except to say it
is to force the issue:
when you say
I am not
in all the ways you say it,
I must say
I am.  Must present evidence, 
offer proof. No matter how tired I am,
no matter how weary I am
of having to say it.

So —
because I am, I am;
because negation
of such a thing
is 
evil, 

in spite of how unfashionable
that word is now, in spite of 
how hard we try
to find other ways to say it —
I say it.  I say it because

my insistence upon saying 
I am

is how I fight
evil.

Is how I fight Evil. 

Is how
I fight, how
we all fight.