Who I am

from Banshee - Monday, April 14, 2003
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I guess this sounds a little confused, because sometimes I am.

Do I know who I am?
 
I am a child
            Without a childhood;
I am a daughter
            Without a father;
I am a son
            Who does not know his Mother;
I am a sibling
            Of too many others.
 
I am alive
            Without having lived;
I have a name
            Without an identity;
I have friends
            Who can not know me;
I have a past
            That is not a part of me.
 
I am whole
            Yet made of broken parts;
I am young
            But old by what I’ve seen;
I have lived many places
            But to home I’ve never been;
I was a prisoner,
            Now I am learning to be free.
 
I stand alone
            In the middle of a crowd;
I may be different,
            Yet I am anything but ordinary:
 
I am brave
When terrified to be;
I am strong
When I could be weak;
I am walking through
What cripples some;
I am conquering
            What many would only run from.
 
I have come in to the race
Behind the rest of the world.
Stride by stride I am catching up;
I am holding my own.
 
Though at times I may stand alone,
I stand above .
In all that I have become,
I am at last learning
Who I am.