I am humble, I am arrogant. I am compassionate, I am indifferent. I’m handsome, I’m hideous. I am admired, I am avoided. I am magnetic, I am invisible. I am selfish, I am selfless. I am resilient, I am fragile. I’m intelligent, I’m ignorant. I am patient, I am restless. I’m loved, I am mourned. I’m seen, I’m overlooked. I’m chosen, I’m passed over. I’m needed, I am replaceable. I am heard, I am silenced. I am forgiving, I am resentful. I am a leader, I am a follower. I am a teacher, I am a student. I am present, I am distracted. I am the light, I am the shadow. I am the key, I am the lock. I am the anchor, I am the tide. I am the seed, I am the harvest. I am the echo, I am the voice. I am the memory, I am the forgetting. I am the destination, I am the detour. I am the cage, I am the bird. I am the salvation, I am the temptation. I am finite, I am infinite. I am insignificant, and somehow capable of changing someone’s entire world.
I stand here certain that I am still. Yet the beneath my feet the earth moves at 800 miles an hour. The same one carrying me around the sun at 67,000 miles an hour and the galaxy carries me through this universe even faster. I call this moment “here” but “here” has never existed twice. Maybe that’s why I don’t fear the end. This body is temporary, I don’t know what waits for me after my last breath. But if I get a choice….make me a whale.
I am not my best day, I am not my worst. I am not one thing I am all of it.
