It is my first and only belief
that I truly know nothing.

That every truth is relative,
that every reality is a perception,

and in time these perceptions may shift.

It is from this footing, therefore,
that I can begin to
ascend towards illumination,
                 or descend into madness.

But
if I am first to believe
that I must indeed know nothing,

how is it
        that I know
                    up
           from
down
?