Becoming Who We Are

I am who I am and not who

you want me to be...

authentic and bold and

questioning everything...

I was who I was but not more

and when that transformation

came to pass, I was who I was

always meant to be...

and, nothing more...  we are who

we were meant to be and not 

what we wanted to be...

around the corner from when or

why especially after the when

since it was always meant to be...

I am who I was but not before

when there was only you and I

and all of those who did not want

to understand why we were...

we came to understand it all when

they did not understand us at all,

and when it was over, we knew both

of us had become that which they

had always wanted us to become.

17 July 2022