Guidepost (poem)
This poem came from an intense, introspective journaling session on who I believe myself to be at my core Lately it feels like everything in life is changing more quickly than I can make sense of it. A realization hit me the other day: I haven't felt like myself in awhile; at the same time, I don't know if there's a version of myself I can easily return to. So many things that feel fundamental have shifted. I can recognize this is in many ways an uncomfortable yet unavoidable part of the human experience. Life/time is constantly ticking forward. The present is both an instant and every instant.
Still, I thought it would do me some good to list out a few things that will more or less always be true; an anchor or guidepost to lead me back to a sense of core self. This list became a poem, and now it lives here.
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I am a caring and social creature.
I am a collection of experiences, of feelings
in the shape of a human
I am a spiritual being;
an air sign,
I listen to what the winds whisper to me
I am a hard worker,
no matter what that work looks like
I am a light behind the eyes
that refuses to go out
I am an artist,
driven by visions
outside of myself and within
hoping to speak to and connect with
something greater
I find peace
in the chaos of creation
I am a small piece
of a much larger collective
it is not all on my shoulders;
we all shoulder through together
I am not simply myself;
I am part of a whole,
a conduit for something much larger,
something that cannot be defined
something I would never even attempt to name
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