How Did You Get To Be You? Poem by Rhonda Baker

Where did you come from?
Where have you been?
What is your history?
Who are your kin?
Was your father funny?
What does your mother say?
Are you just like your siblings?
In every single way?
Did you inherit all that you are?
Or where you lead here by an unnamed star?
How did you get to being you?
Step, by step it’s just the way that I grew
Where did you begin and where will you end?
It’s a life long mystery, my dear friend

7/24/13