Who Am I? Poem by louis rams

you all know me and you know my name.
i am something you can not tame

i can be as gentle and as soft
as a butterfly upon a flower.
or as unforeseen as the midnight hour.
you can love me or you can
hate me, but you can not forsake me.

i have been around since the beginning of time
i can be as hot as a flame
yet! cold as ice.
and without me you can not suffice.

i am all that you may want to be
and yet you can not see.
you feel my presence all around
and when you don't expect me
i will be found.

'i am'-a child of a mother called nature.
and she like me, is as beautiful as can be.
she can enslave you, or set you free.

the information i have given you
was a task.
'now is the question you must ask'
who am i?


I AM WIND.