WHO

as a boy

I thought like a man

as a teenager

I thought like a child

as a man

I thought like a teenager

as a senior citizen

my thoughts were not my own;

as a soldier

I thought like a prisoner

as a student

I thought like a liberal

as a liberal

I thought like a conservative

as a spouse

I thought like a partner;

who I am is

who I am not and

who I am not is

what I aspire to be one day

if life continues as is

or even differently becomes,

I am the same as

always I have been

except when thinking as if

I were a boy again.

26 October 2020