Poetry

I am the nothingness, the stillness, the everything behind all that I think I am

I am all that I think I am, and all that I think I am not

I am all that I can feel and express and all that I am unable to feel and express

I am the creator of my life and the effect of all I create

I am the stillness behind my noise and the noise that drowns my peace

I am the joy that’s hidden by suffering and the limitations that cloud my freedom

I am the darkness shadowing my light and the light that penetrates my darkness

I am the confidence behind the uncertainty and the questions that fuel my knowing

I am the beauty beyond the veil, the conflict behind the mask

I am the wisdom beneath the knowledge, the facts behind the fiction

I am how I see it all and it is all how I see myself

I am part of a whole and whole on my own

I am here to be me… accept who I am, transform who I’m not, love all that I am

Be free to be me

Be all I can be

I AM

Tracy Russell, 2010

Written while contemplating that ever-changing question of infinite complexities and simplicities, “Who am I?”