"Identity"
Each of us is so much more than a superficial appearance...
IDENTITY
by Jane Murphy
You ask who I am, and my answer depends On how deep the probe of your question extends. A brief, superficial description may fully suffice, Or you may look deeper by asking the same more than twice. Therefore below I impart my reply sevenfold: I am A physical body constructed of earth, Characteristics confirmed at my birth, Made to endure in this world for a number of years, Passage of seasons affecting the way it appears. I make the best of it, but that’s not all that I am Habit acquired through fulfillment of needs, Mem'ry impressions of previous deeds, Feeling responses derived from events of the past, Shifting as subsequent happenings leave them recast. Keeping the good ones and changing the bad, for I am Objective witness to provable fact, Subjective lover of charms that attract, Knowledge and methods with which to correct what is wrong, Arts to bring harmony, that we may all get along, Steering through life in my soul’s unique style, though I am Loser through conflict, neglect or decay, Winner with confidence in a wise way, Pain of the failure to see and accept what is true, Joy in perception from a more mature point of view, Justice attained at appropriate cost, yet I am Purposeful bearer of duties imposed, Dissident rebel when wrongly enclosed, Firmly controlling a system that served in the past, Aptly inventing where old systems need be surpassed, Synchronized with the Celestial Wheel, and I am Blind one cocooned in a veil tightly furled, Butterfly free in a vivid new world, Lost among visions suggestive of things I might do, Fearlessly focusing on a dream as it comes true, Spirit and star like my kin in the vast cosmic fam, Bound to grow brighter, a spark of The One Great I AM.
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