I Am...*

a giver, a receiver, a thinker, a loafer I am

a builder, a destroyer, a lover, a hater I am

a buyer, a seller, a maker, a user I am

a learner, a teacher, a researcher I am

a follower, a leader, a preacher I am

an actor, a spectator, a performer I am

a being, an entity, a creature I am

a dot, a speck, a line, a figure I am

a poem, a song, a story, a novel I am

a solid, a liquid, a gas, an element I am

an idea, a thought, a reason I am

a letter, a word, a phrase, a sentence I am

a dirt, a stone, a ground, a land I am

a well, a pond, a river, an ocean I am

a seed, a plant, a shrub, a tree, a forest I am

an apple, an orange, a grape, a banana I am

a carrot, a potato, a tomato I am

a moment, a second, a minute, an hour I am

a day, a week, a month, a year I am

a decade, a century, a millennium I am

the part, the sum of who, what, where, when, why, and how

I am...

copyright 2011 by chris a. quilpa

*appeared in SKIPPING STONES, an anthology of Hampton Roads, Virginia poets, artists, & photographers, published in 2005 by the Chesapeake Bay Poets, Mindworm Press, Chesapeake, VA. The book was edited by Pete Freas and assisted by Eddie Dowe and Jeff Hecker.