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My Life Is Me
By Clyde E. Gumbs

 

There have been so many times

That I have struggled through the day

Overwhelmed by all confronting me

Not knowing how to find my way

 

What is this thing I call my life

With all the challenges it brings

A collection of so many fragments

So many single separate things

 

So many separate things to deal with

The tasks and people pulling me

In contradictory directions

Is this the way it’s meant to be

 

Maybe if I had a strategy

To get through all I have to face

Maybe if I could prioritize

I'd win this endless daunting race

 

But no matter how much I ever handle

There is always more and more and more

No matter how many moments I survive

There is no peace within my core

 

There are times this thing I call my life

Seems like more than I can bear

It's so much more than I can deal with

With no real answers anywhere

 

But perhaps I am mistaken

About this thing I call my life

Perhaps I add all the drama

Perhaps I add all the strife

 

Perhaps there is no separation

Between my life and what is me

Perhaps my life isn’t stuff to deal with

But reflects what I can choose to be

 

If I live as a survivor

Then I must have things to survive

 But why not live as all I’m born to be

Could there be another way to thrive

 

Perhaps there’s nothing to survive

As my existence does unfold

Perhaps the only me there is

Is the experience I mold

 

Perhaps I can’t be overwhelmed

By that which is my destiny

Perhaps the only life I have

Is the existence that is me 

 

Perhaps if I lived true to purpose

Just lived my life authentically

With integrity of being

I would see my life as me

 
 
 
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