Who Am I?

A poem of internal searching...

Who is she?

Who is this girl sitting with pen and paper,

Writing words of her own,

and words of others?

Who is she?

She who spies on conversations,

writes her depressions,

using words of rhyme and death mixed with passion

She is I.

I am a writer,

I am a poet,

I am human like you.

I breathe...I bleed...I need...

My needs may be different,

Just as yours are from mine.

Who am I?

I search my soul,

You search my eyes and my work

I look for the answer to the question "Who am I"

I have found...

I am a writer,

I am a poet,

I am human like you

I breathe...I bleed...I need...

so...

         Soo... how are we different?

Do I write like you?

No.

Do I talk like you?

No.

Do I feel like you?

No.

Therefore, I am who I am...

I am a unique individual,

I am a poet.

So... Who is she?

She is I

         and you are you

Together, in harmony, we make the world.

Together, in harmony, let us bring peace.

With your words and mine,

This world may be divine.

Who am I?

Who am I?

at times I do not even know...That is me.

I am that girl,

sitting with paper and pen,

Sitting with a blackened rose,

whose stem is full of thorns,

I am that girl,

sitting and cryin' with bleeding fingers.

Drip...

Drop...

Blood flows as life does...

Do you feel it?

Can you touch it?

Do you feel the soul of yourself dripping in your blood?

I do...That is who I am... I am my soul-- waiting to be set free.

Reviews

[Siddartha Beth Pierce]

Great write - to ponder who we are in relation to others truly is a hard thing to do. You have expressed this simply and elegantly. Thank you to S.P. Vaporis for sharing this with me. I truly enjoyed reading this. Thank you for sharing so much of yourself in this wonderful work.
Light,
Siddartha

[pal]

I am that girl,;sitting with paper and pen,;Sitting with a blackened rose,;whose stem is full of thorns,;I am that girl,;sitting and cryin' with bleeding fingers.;Drip...;Drop...;Blood flows as life does...;Do you feel it?;Can you touch it?;Do you feel the soul of yourself dripping in your blood?;I do...That is who I am... I am my soul-- waiting to be set free.

Wonderful.. no words to describe the feeling this poem created on my mind, heart n soul

will u please see my poem on similar thoughts..


http://www.writerscafe.org/writing/gopalann/141979/

http://www.writerscafe.org/writing/gopalann/127049/

pal

[;]

That was amazing...You are a truly great poet..That is who you are! This is one of those rare poems that leave me breathless and speechless with its emotion!
WONDERFUL!

[Dave "Doc" Rogers]

Nice rhythm. This would be nice to hear as a spoken word, if done by someone who could find it. And, true introspective. Nicely done.

Cheers!
Doc.

[Kitty Cat]

I like this poem a lot! The rhythm is amazing, it flows constantly, yet it is also interrupted by stops, just like life.
This poem is filled with meaning.

[Arlene Fleisher]

This was great! Thanks so much to S.P. Vaporis for sending it to me.

[Donald Cole]

awesome, so awesome, so real, so true. It is me, cept i don't bleed. Yet I feel as intense at times. sad, beautiful just like life. My life has had so many ups and downs, more downs, yet try to focus on the light.

[Tad K]

wonderful poem. the repeating elements worked wonderfully. I love how you made it personal and still reached out to me a middle aged male. The phrasing was nice, i liked it a lot. Additionally it flowed well as I am a very aural person and so I hear myself reading it, it would lend its self to reading outloud in a poetry night setting.

[Dawnkain]

This is deep. Enlightened. Well done.

[Dragonfyr Skye]

Wow... One of the most incredible poems I've read yet. This one truly made me feel. You know who you are, and you're not going to let anyone change you. Fulfill your destiny. Set yourself free.

[Kristen R. Heyl]

I like how you have seem to have really thought about who you are and how you make others think about who they are in relation to others. I love how you point out the differences of us and that it is okay to be different. Bravo.