Can I answer?

Who am I, What am I, Why am I?

Barely.

As I breathe,

3 4 6

Few know the questions, 
even fewer know the answer.  

A life is taken for an inch of understanding.

I know neither. I am not inside.

3 In.
4 Hold.
6 Out.

Awake!

O thrice great Hermes,
I cry of you. 

How to be born again of
water and wind?