Who I Am

When I was a child
 a mere simulation of an adult reconciled,
 in the body of a seven-year-old adventurer -
I'd be a scientist, explorer or a writer succumbed to indenture,
 as the storyteller, poet of what may lay ahead synchronizing,
 visionary hero of the future uncompromising 
out of the histories of some reformulated past stabilizing;
 guided by grandmother's heart and care
 taking in everything with no thought spared,
caught between the dream and its lesson wellspring
 and all the heartaches and happiness it may bring
 living, loving, measuring everything;
and here I am today, aged and grown
 caught by the ebb and tidal edges sown
 of where I was to go within its undertow.
I am the legendary me completed and formed
 in a legacy that is created by life storms
 satisfied and eased and at last at rest
knowing well - who I am today
 can be assured -
 I did my very best.

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