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

[doreen cyr]

awesome write
doreen

[Imperfection]

" Who am I"
--is a tough question to answer.

I have often wondered along the same lines.
All the more reason, I found this poem so much enjoyable.
Well-written.

[Melissa Powell]

very interesting Penny! A wonderful poem!

[S.j. Garcia]

this had a nice thought flow to it. i felt like i was sitting in on something you were thinking to yourself. very cool. :)

[Kimberly S]

i like how it seems like she is trying to look from the outside in and that she is seeing herself for her. She accepts that she is she and that everyone else is different no matter what anyone else might think. I really liked this one.

[CarrieLynn {Chameleon A..]

very good peice! :)

[V. K. Harris]

I think I know you now....Great Write.

[Gypsy]

I found this piece very powerful and moving. I can identify with the passion you put into writing. I try to do the same with my work. I'm sure a lot of us writers can really feel this one. I would change a couple of the words...like whom to who...and take the a out before human. Other than that I love this piece!

[Angelheaded Hipster]

This kicks a*s on so many levels...I really dig the self introspection, and then looking outside yourself for some spark of recognition.
I think it would be a grand world if we could set aside our differences, and just get together based on what we LIKE, what we share in common....instead of staying closed off to ourselves due to our differences.
Thank you for letting me peek at these words....