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

[J. Hampton]

This is a signiture piece ....very intro/outro-spective
like the ebb and flow of it
very much

A lil overboard on the I am.....
if I can figure how to do notes ....

Like the personality of it
two thumbs and a kudos

Blessssssssssssssss

[TL Boehm]

smart words and smart style to this one. I believe SP sent it to me as well. Love the line about the blackened rose and thorn full of stems - it is a great metaphor for writing as well as the heart.

[Marie]

Nicely written.

[Kaykay]

with the old age quest
"do I not feel do I not touch do I not bleed"
good poem

[Jonathan Bryant Dean]

This is basicaly a sort of philosophy. I like the way it moves quickly and then switches tempo.

I think it reads fine, but it may be better assimilated as spoken word. That way we can truly feel the emotion and confusion that you are portraying

JBD

[Helen Woodward]

Every individual is unique and you are no exception. I thought the repetition in this was a little overbearing, but the concept and content was a good example of "the search for who we are" and "why we're here"

[BrightEyes]

I think we all ponder who exactly we are...so many people we can be.....depending on who we are with, what situation we are in...don't know that there really is an exact answer to the question...so...we are who we are...period. No further explanation required. I didn't mind the jumpy parts...didn't detract anything from the read for me...so I guess they fit. Nice job.

laura :)

[Debra Stevens Edwards (..]

This piece is a very powerful read, each of us go on this journey to find the soul inside ouselves. Your words expressed it well and I have read it and something came up and I had to sign off before I could do a review. I enjoyed reading this very much.
Debby

[Amy Carroll]

This is a wonderful poem. I like how the writer is intuned with herself in descovering who she is and letting others know. She questions who she is yet she already knows and that she identifies with others and together for her true talent. Nice poem.

[Moonlight_love Aka Star..]

I love this poem it is so beautiful and true. Everyone is differnet and unique no one is the same which is a good thing.