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I Am Me

I AM ME


I am me

In all the world , there is no one else like me

There are persons, who have some parts like me,

but no one adds up exactly like me.

Therefore, everything that comes out of me is authentically mine,

because I alone chose it

I own everything about me

my body, including everything it does

my mind, including all its thoughts and ideas

my eyes including the images of all they behold

my feelings whatever they may be

anger, joy, frustration, love, disappointment, excitement

my mouth, and all the words that come out of it

polite, sweet or rough, correct or incorrect

my voice loud or soft

and all my actions, whether they’re  right or wrong

I own my fantasies, my dreams, my hopes and fears

I own all my triumphs and successes, all my failures and mistakes

Because I own all of me I can become intimately acquainted with me.

By so doing I can love me and be friendly with in all my parts

I can then make it possible for all of me to work in my best interests

I know there are aspects about myself that puzzle me.

And  other aspects that I do not know

But as long as I am friendly and loving to myself

I can courageously and hopefully  look for the solutions to the puzzle

and for ways to find out more about me

However I look and sound, whatever I say and do

and whatever I think and feel at a given moment in time is me.

When I review later how I looked and sounded

what I said and did 

and  how I thought and felt

some parts may turn out to be unfitting

I can discard those parts unfitting

and keep what proved fitting

and invent something new for that which I discarded

I can see, hear, feel, think, say and do

I have the tools to survive, to be close to others

to be productive, and to make sense and order out of the world

of people and things outside of me

I own me, and therefore I can engineer me

I am me, I am okay.

By: Tamika Richardson

Copyright © Tamika Richardson | Year Posted 2005

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