I Am

I Am


I am…
The silence that takes your heart in its grasp
As you lay your head to sleep tonight
The wind in your heart and the pain in your bones

I am…
The people forgotten and shoved between hovle walls
choking on their own low worth and lost spirits
They pound the earth flat with there feet and
build their shacks upon the same ground

I am
The distant thunder and rippling chills across your skin
as you wander aimlessly through this maze of exaggerated glory
The cries of distant wolves
They scream for their missing copper brothers and sisters
I am the thrashing ground between your fingers I
Don't tighten your grasp i’ll only fall through quicker

I am
The first breath of the dawn
hai quwa Nu Dai
(welcome new dawns)
Embrace me and hold me forever
but don't compare me to the beauty of the moon
For mine will be lost in her shadow

I am
The colored faces of grief
As we stumble along a path of white sticky roses
Our feet cut on thorns painting the trail red

I am
The first blow of war and the last tear of victory
The words of pericles
The purple flowing robes of alcibiades
The tragedy that was once a great people
Lost once in the white faces of people like yours
And again in the brown faces of people like mine

I am
The simple grace of an infant's first steps
The insidious shadow of desert trees
The mockery of concrete norms and
the held hands of those who stand against them

I am
A metamorphosed soul
A transient being
A creature lurking in the prayers of your fathers
I am the eyes of time and the witness of historical repentance
I am in the eyes of a friend and the wound of a foe

I am
The judge of angles and jailer of sins
The grinding of teeth
as a young child dreams impossible feats of terror

I am
The simple stillness
before the hell rage of a storm
The color Unidentifiable
by the primitive cones and rods in our simple windows

I am
In your very existence
In your home
In your laughter
In your dreams
In your soul