I Poem by Thomas Fontenot

Who am I?

I am not my thoughts
I am not my body
I am not my name
I am not my religion
I am not my career
I am not my political affiliation

Who is I?

I does not change
I has no beginning
I has no end
I is constant
I is spirit

My world has been changing
as long as I can remember

Memory of my fifth birthday
is vivid

Memory of my fiftieth birthday
is vivid

Only I have not changed
from five to fifty

I is timeless
I is eternal
I is life
I is love