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Identity

March 17, 2021
By cjnwriter1 SILVER, Oconomowoc, Wisconsin
cjnwriter1 SILVER, Oconomowoc, Wisconsin
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I am not someone with bound

I am not bound to that idea of myself which I hold to be concrete

I am not bothered by words

I am not worried with how I appear in the minds of others

I am not afraid to be better

I am not strangled by the idea of fear such that my goals become unreachable

I am not unchanged

I am not a static form in this world, reluctant to move in the direction of my passions

I am not a victim of this universe

I am not a powerless being, subject to the powers that be

I am not the observer

I am not the one who idly stands by, watching as things don’t go as planned

I am not someone else’s being

I am not burdened by what those who seek to live my life for me

I am not singular

I am not the culmination of one mere factor, but rather a host of ideas and concepts of my own

I am not anyone else but me

I am my own


The author's comments:

Often times I find myself stuck in my own head, thinking about my self-worth and who I am as a person.  Almost as a kind of therapy, I tried to get those thoughts and affirmations down in the form of this poem.


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