Who are You
who are you?
I am asking because you think you know, but you don't !
Yet you don't think you don't know!
You are just something, if something else exists
You are your Mama's child
You are your papa's child
Or you baby's ma or pap
without whom you are nowhere
You say you are teacher of history or her story, without whose story you then don't exist, you are nothing
You say you are a driver
And so without the car your title is gone
You exist because a car exists
So who are you?
A preacher, rabbi, evangelist
Without the sinners, you gonna move from sin you are nothing till sin comes to rescue you from yourself
A policeman, No that's not you
The thieves may quit and then you quit
Even the thief thiefs the neighbors outfit, without which the thief must see it fit to quit
A boxer too punches your nose
So without your nose who knows
He won't be him
The doctor is nothing till you chase your running bottom or buttock for those who talk or call it by name.
Without gout and other bouts the nurse is out.
So who are you?
If lies could die, what would I be
The lawyer must lie in court
No lie no law, no law no lawyer
Lie low my friend.
If you are a judge, seek no grudge
For you are in charge
You are the king today, tomorrow you're gone, they call you the late
Yet you were early in every meeting
Be humble
You are nobody till somebody is
You nothing till something is
You are absent till something is present
who are you?
Copyright © Peter Onyancha | Year Posted 2023
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