Identity Poem by akachukwu chukwuemeka ( akabeks)

What we are, we are.
What we are not, we are not.

What we are not and would be,
We may be.
What we are and will not be,
May never be.

Because we are afraid of what we are,
We have become what we are not.
Because we have become what we are not,
We are afraid of what we have become.

We have become afraid of the wind,
We have become afraid of the shadows of our mind,
We run from the songs of the birds, we avoid the
Melodies of our aged walks.

We run from the morning showers, we run from the setting sun.
We run from anything, everything, we run from nothing.

Because we have become nothing, we are everything.
We have become what we are because,
We have rejected what we are.

We have become afraid of what we are because,
We are nothing…



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