I'M Not There Poem by Jack Turner

I am my jailer, and my cell
I am my heaven, and my hell

I am the beauty and the beast;
I am the most; I am the least

I am nothing, I'm the world,
Uncut diamonds, gleaming pearls

I am the darkness, and the light
I am the weakness, and the might

I am the strength, I am the strong
I am the right; I am the wrong

I am here, I am not there,
I am the passion; I do not care.

I am the sea, I am the breeze,
I am the flood, the raging seas

I am the start, I am the end
I never break; I do not bend

I am the right, the middle, left,
I am the life; I am the death

I am the glory and the good;
I am the splendour and the blood

I am the laughter and the love
I am the violence, push and shove

I am nothing, empty hole,
I am the half; I am the whole

I am the nights and blurry days
I am the lights and alleyways

I am the secrets and the lies,
The honest truth and alibis

I am the useless and the used
I am abuser, and abused

I am The Angry and The Mad
I am The Beaten and The Sad

I am the tyrant and the thief
I am the Pain and Sweet Relief

I am empty and bereft;
I am all that I have left

I am the worst, I am the best
I am the Life
I am the Death