Thursday, February 2, 2017

Am I


Am I


  1. The mouth I keep shut the
words I keep in the
friends I shut out the fear I let
win

  1. Strange burning anger at the most random of times
this infinite exhaustion after every single night

  1. The races I will win (and lose) the people I will be
the people I will love and the people I will leave

  1. The kindness inside
     the endless gray space between  
     what’s wrong and what’s right
a little too much pride (but only on the outside)

  1. Speaking up and not sitting down
     the pride I’ll wear (but not yet not now)
the places I visit the places I’ll live the things that I give
    when I have nothing to give
  1. Staying up and sleeping in
what I’ll never understand (everything I want to be that is never who I am)

  1. The sorrow the anger the nostalgia the peace
my share of too much sentimentality

  1. Things I have said I wish I could put back
What if they’re right?
What could be worse than that?

  1. Who I will become and who I really am
The times I finally stayed, not ran
the things that I want the things that I’ve lost
everything that I’ve learned (but at what cost?)
the wanderlust in me (still searching for my abilities)
the dreams I have had the (few) times I took a stand
my spineless ambition my adored memories my own forgotten responsibilities
the parts of me I’ve lost and the new ones that I’ve gotten the people I forgot and the ones I will remember


  1. All of the above

2 comments:

  1. I really like how you created wrote it, the poem is so different to what i have really and overall. I key detail that i really liked is that you added the alphabet in the poem. very unique.

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  2. Great poem! I really like how you listed everything and then the last one says "all of the above" and I think that's a great way to end.

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