I Am Not What I Seem Poem by Ludolf Dauphin

I am not what I seem
I am the water that flows, shapeless.
A breathing, living organism
I am muddy, and yet clear
Millions of plants and lives
depend on

I am the wind that blows
Unseen, so sweet and fragile,
with rough edges, not like death
which possessed one dark end

I am the star, the moon,
bred from above, only the night
describes their silent streams

I am the day that begins and ends
With endless beauty that goes around
So I am the life we breathe, the cosmos

Which waits only on death silent bed,
and yet I am love
Filling hearts with bliss and blues

Then again, I am hate,
contrary to what love might think.
I am everything, and yet I am nothing.