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WindWalker
Senior Member

since 2001-10-12

Posts 1218

0 posted 2007-04-08 11:31 AM

Who can tell me who I am?
A god? A book? A guru?
A teacher? A boss? A shrink?
Someone in authority?

Experience has taught me,
I am the only one with that answer
for no one can ever know me
as well as I can know myself.

The system would rather
I never found out
I create my own destiny;
remain a docile slave
in a give and take situation:
I give, it takes, so simple
and so amazingly effective.

Can I be whom I’d rather be
if I never choose to discover
who this is I call me?
Only when I believe in me
can I discover I control
both my destiny and my life.

And this brings up the subject of names:
do I continue to pass myself off
under the pseudonym forced on me
when I had no choice?

Self-empowerment– that’s what its about –
begins when I choose my own name,
not some hand-me-down label
someone else pinned on me:
I’m not a pair of jeans or toothpaste.

Midnitesun

Member Empyrean

since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

1 posted 2007-04-08 11:37 AM

SELF-control.....

The only control that makes sense!

Drauntz
Member Elite

since 2007-03-16

Posts 2905
Los Angeles California

2 posted 2007-04-08 11:37 AM

enjoyed and made me think.

we must be the physical form of our soul.

The Lady
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-12-26

Posts 7634
The Southwest

3 posted 2007-04-08 02:02 PM

the answer is yes
you are all of those people
constantly rediscovering
everything you long ago discovered

and those last three lines??

INCREDIBLE

oh I like this!

secondhanddreampoet
Member Ascendant

since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

4 posted 2007-04-08 06:08 PM

Fine, thoughtful 'write'!
the unvarnished truth:

"The system would rather
I never found out
I create my own destiny;
remain a docile slave
in a give and take situation:
I give, it takes, so simple..."

much applause!

ThisDiamond
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-02-22

Posts 9353
Michigan, USA

5 posted 2007-04-08 11:42 PM

Always a pleasure to share your thoughts.
Superb!

Startime55
Member Elite

since 2003-04-05

Posts 2148
Alberta, Canada

6 posted 2007-04-09 12:03 PM

Ah, dear friend...I know who you are to me....to me you are a friend who makes me see beyond myself...who opens visions of beauty and thought which make me look a little closer...sometimes you are a mage...wise beyond this world...to me you are WINDWALKER who takes me on voyages that go beyond the stars...To me you are a friend who I love for being you....*Big Hugs*

Kethry
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-07-29

Posts 9082
Victoria Australia

7 posted 2007-04-13 06:10 PM

In some cultures children are given use names until they discover themselves and then they rename themselves and are reborn into that name. It seems to me that you have begun that journey of self discovery with your questions. Good work, Windwalker.

a good commitee can decimate communication.

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