who am i

abt who is she..or who am i

Life opened in mystique and wonder

Enveloped in arms so loving and tender

I look up at my safe keeper

I am forever her daughter

There he comes to claim

His stake, softly whispers my name

His thick calloused finger

Held firm in my fist, my father

Days spent in fun, in mad abandon

Heedless of shoulds, musts,do's don'ts

Until, to learn at another's feet

Time come, to be a student

Years roll by, my head's filled

With all it can hold, then some more

I am braced to enter the door

To become a bride, to another

The role of the new wife

Immense happiness, Big responsibilities

New bonds, To be again

In law -  a sister, daughter, a mother

Life comes from life

And brings to my hands one, and another

The joys that the new role hands

To my welcoming arms, I'm a mother

In all these that I am 

In all that I be

Would someone look at me and think

Now, Who could 'she' be?

Stranger, isn't  it stranger

To know, I do too

As I in all this journey through

Ask my reflection, Who be you?

As I go through life's stages

And varied roles

Playing One and then donning another

I pause often times and I too Wonder

Daughter to One

A mother to another

Sister to some

A sister in law become

Friend to Friend

A wife, and a home maker

All these things make me think

Who am I, beyond all this, within?