# Me! Me! Me!

By Peter Pink-Howitt, 1 January 2024.
Web page: https://compossible.blog/2024/01/01/me-me-me/
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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> *‘it is not the unbearable lightness of being,
> it is the unbearable lightness of being something*’ 
> (Milan Kundera)

I am a dark musty cupboard
I'm a dusty kettle-drum
Beaten under the cosmic fires

I am an unwanted prostitute
retired and unretiring

I’m a 70's disco dancer
I am a can opener

I’m a pack of dogs
pissing out their territory

I am a law unto myself
I’m learning to love myself
and wear it like a second skin
a silken throw

I am pain that pains itself
the sly questioner the cautious underwriter
wise beyond years
but a fool every day
and I play

I’m a stone's throw from me
and no I am not a tree
Though I may be gravity
looked on negatively

I am journeying to find more me
(ah!) bitter irony

I’m the cry of the kite in flight
though my wing-span
exceeds their velocity

I am none of these
I care so little for identity
to find myself
I am prepared to wait
I must wait
I wait

As nature abhors a vacuum
a little clearing space
flowers joyfully
under a caring watchful eye.

![photo by the author](valley.jpg "photo by the author")