Short I Know You Are But What Am I Poems

  No one could know all of who I am
or even make good sense of what I have become.
I suppose love is finding someone willing to try......

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I pulled the clouds apart like a curtain..
There sat those who have gone too soon..
To know they are together, I am now certain..
And our hands touch lightly like floating balloons.....

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"Some don't even have the ing thought in what I do within my mind and life of hope,
Yet they think they know me.
I'm sorry but you've known me for time,
Yet don't even know within the person I am!"

-Ds-...

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There are moments when l feel l don’t belong
Not singing in tune to the right song
Not dancing in time to the right beat
Not walking straight with my two left feet

When younger it bothered me
Thought someone else l should be
Now l know and love who l am
I no longer give a damn !...

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I sit to learn what defines me,
but yet i redifine me,
to know the aim but yet am drained,
for purpose delight i seek the light,
for peace i search but love am given,
no longer alone but now at home,
oh grace my own, these days i know,
what christ has done, those lights are dawn,

Thank you Jesus...

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Oh Yeah! I know I am wrong,
Oh yeah! You won’t come along.

I know I never followed rules,
My beauty & mind are only jewels.

Oh Yeah! I’ve been hated for my attitude,
I know, my life will be lonely song.
I know you love me, I know I love you.
But you will not come along.

Oh yeah! I know baby I know I am wrong!!...

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Don’t ever take your life for sure
Live the fact that it’s only now or never

What should I do with this hate, greed and Anger
I know even though inside I am pure

It is good to expect and on the side of receiver
But be ready for the worst and accepting failure

Life, Enough of learning and enough of lessons
Let me free to be me now in a new way to re-discover...

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Okay, it’s true- I’m into you.
I know your girl and so am I,
But I can’t help that you make my heart 
Fly.
Although, I do- I like boys, gentle Kings of Troy
It took me long to figure out,
But I finally know what my sexual attractions all about.
I don’t think that I could do without,
As it’s just a part of me you see.
I myself like to cross dress,
History… it is the rest....

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I am aware of what i look like.
I am in 'the know' of all that i am,
I know me.

You fail to realize that your words, 
Are sharp, piercing and toxic.
Toxic and damaging to the ears; the heart.

Do you understand that your words, pierce flesh?      
Do you understand that your words hurt?

Do you comprehend, the words i speak?         
I know me, i know that i am what you see.
I know....

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Staring into the mirror
Having no idea who is staring back at me
When i look in the mirror all i know is the reflection i am seeing is sad
Very sad
The reflection
It looks lifeless,
Exhausted because this world surrounding it is so cruel
Cruel to mind 
Cruel to the soul
A lifeless vessel 
Waiting to expire
Waiting for the pain to stop
It never does
The pain never goes away...

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6am, I'm still not sleeping
Trippin in my mind
Can hear my thoughts grind
Wondering how high the problems will mount
Time keeps goin by, it's the hours I count

10am, still awake
my mind I can't make
these thoughts I can't shake
Till I make a decision
On what to do,
If u only knew

Goin into the night again and I'm still not sleeping
Yall don't know the real meaning of am/pm...

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Secure is my heart 
As I travel in the dark
 I am well aware of the darkness that's despairs 

I am not afraid 
For the light within my chest shines 
Shines through my soul out my eyes 
And I know in my mind I am blessed 

I perish the thought
 of being just a witness I go on and I trust
As I am insistent



11/21/21
Written by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021...

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Darling, I'm here for you
This Mantra is true 
Darling, I know that you're there & I am very happy 
It sticks like glue

Darling, I know you suffer
Sometimes it's getting rougher and tougher 
Darling, I suffer, please help
I'll take care of you as a whelp

This is a happy moment 
I'm permanently obedient patient 
Darling, you're partly right 
I love your light

The 6 Mantras in 3 Verses...

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I know an old Town.
Older than the River Nile,
Romantic like Rome,
Undeafetable like Israel ,
Fearless likr a Lioness, 
Rubust than a cotton tree, 
Enormous than an ocean,
I know that Town that i am talking about 
That has no Culture or tradition,
Which enable them to be  free-minded people.
I know that Town,
That people don't shed tears.
Sojust imaging how that Town will 
Look like in your imagination....

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Animals came alive on my new Christmas tree
In a vintage blue car from about forty-three
I heard the zebra first, he yelled out, “Whee!”
Elephant was coaxing them to go to New York City.

I know that you think I am fibbing or being witty.
My imagination is not that great, it’s not pretty.
A chimpanzee grabbed my chin and was kind of spit-ty.
I was so irritated I encouraged them to go to New York City....

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Do you know that we can see the pain in your face
I do not know who I am, I am what I know
and I am for certain your heart use to glow
These years feel like dreams I will never retrace
We were once wolves with life in our veins
I didn't pay attention at how much we would change
I swore to myself I would forever stay strange
and we are now blending into the streets
with our minds in the past
with nothing but sore feet...

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Squeezing a wonderland of raw emotion through an isthmic delight

I giggle and wiggle like a tightening button at a peephole and despite

Twist turns and stitch ups my tack does not come loose at the seam

A dream weaver or seamstress in a flow of full consciousness stream

Until I don't know any longer if I am the needle my eye or the butt

Need slimming down at my round waistline or in two halves I'll be cut


08th April 2020...

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Touched by a wisp of breath divine, eyes opened wide, as if surprised.

Awakened at first light of day, I care enough, bow my head and, shut my eyes.
Another day meant just for me, to find my way as I arise.

My wish before this Yuletide crest – is know each day that I am blessed.

This day I give to you, my LOVE.  All wrapped with smiles and ribbons wide; 
Bright bows tied tight with kisses and hugs; belong to “one”, always by my side....

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Today Im tired of waiting.
Today Im tired of trying.
Today I think there is no hope for us.
Today I think you will never know me , see who I am or understand.

Today I think you have wasted our time together.
Today I think you don't try.
Today I think you have never really cared.
Today I think being alone is easier,safer,less painful.
Today I cry for you ,but will never tell you.

Today I love you.

Today I pray for tomorrow to be here soon....

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Is my mask in place?
Do I appear normal?
But am I their normal?
Will I pass?

I could announce myself 
in a variety of interesting ways
and explain myself by showing them
my doctor's notes

But am I not vulnerable enough?
Do I not already have enough labels?
Do I need to give them another reason to detest me?
Do I want them to know how truly different I am?

Is my mask in place?
Is yours? What about Sylvia's mask?
And Tom's? We all need them. Not just one of us....

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Palm trees and bamboo tower
above me 
What grand stature! 
Patches of terra uncensored by grass
 Ferns intertwine, creating a 
jungle of green
Deceased, arid palm leaves
rest upon a bed of lively shrub
The humid, Hilo air
annoying, yet, a sense of 
warm, maternal embrace 
surrounds me 
Mr. Buddha, he sits, stone still
So patient
Unmolested by the humidity 
or the mosquitoes
An ever so slight grin he presents 
that says: 
"I don't know it all, but I am content."...

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   Like a man possessed we fight
     'neath cool exteriors
   a raging fire burns, day and night

   We have nowhere to turn
     no matter how we yearn
   to parlez vous francais or habla ingles

   Never quite accepted
     by the whole world rejected
    All our efforts reproved
     ever on the move ... 

   I squirm and fidget
     'cos I never quite fit in
   Now, back in Israel 
     with God I dwell

   I know who and what I am
     back in my homeland...

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I feel the pressure of the tiny beads
My new found band pleases me so as I
Walk through the morning mist of the mountain
Where my family finds its morning way.

How did I come on these colorful bits,
I look down the valley’s winding road
And know in my soul I am a Cherokee girl,
Feeling the fringe, the soft leather, the breeze.

I hold my baby sister’s little hand,
And believe, believe it is true, and then
Awaken, my face to the sunshine,
When I feel, it is real, I am home....

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When I look at you
You make me smile
Everytime I look into your eyes
My feelings grow stronger
I want something more with you
But a side of me is scared
To really let those walls down
F or you too see what you truly mean too me.
Too see how special you are to me.
How much I want you in my life
How much I want you close everyday
And I know that one day I am going to say  those
Three words…I love…..lol
But no not yet we just have to see
If I mean that much to you as you mean to me...

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Black clouds ever surrounding me
But look, a bright ray of light I see

From where does this light appear
Has it come from far or from near

A million thoughts enter my mind
A sign from above, that I’m behind

Quick explanations though, never pass
Nor do a thousand, I have grown crass 

About this shaft of light what can be told
I don’t know now, maybe when I am old

Desire to know, imbedded since our youth
Philosophy teaches there really is no truth 



Penned 2/2/2013
Contest: Shaft of Light...

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