Expository: Swimming

The answer,
The simple answer
To
Life, the universe and everything,

To me
It would have to be
Something that
Was not contingent upon anything,

It would need to be
Something that
Never changed,
Nor withered;

What could that be?
I don’t have to tell you
Because you already know it
And all you have to do is

Ask the question,
What is it
That is not contingent upon anything
And that remains unchanged?

You could say it’s change,
Or you could say the deathless
Or you could say reality,
It matters not what you call it,

What matters is
That you see it,
Clearly discern it
And this is the difficulty.

It’s so simple,
So obvious,
So ubiquitous,
The very water in which we swim
And that we are (whatever that is!)