I am Me

I am me

in all the world,
there is no one else like me.
There are persons who have some parts like me,
but no one adds up exactly like me.
Therefore,
everything that comes out of me
is authentically mine
because i alone chose it.
I own everything

about me my body,
including everything it does;

my mind,
including all its thoughts and ideas;

my eyes,
including the images of all they behold;

my feelings,
whatever they may be anger,
joy,
frustration,
love,
disappointment,
excitement;

my mouth,
and all the words that come out of it,
polite,
sweet or rough,
correct or incorrect;

my voice,
loud or soft;

and all my actions,
whether they be to others or to myself.

I own
my fantasies,
my dreams,
my hopes,
my fears.

 I own all my triumphs and successes,
 all my failures and mistakes.
 Because I own all of me,

 I can become intimately acquainted with me.
 By so doing I can love me
 and be friendly with me in all my parts.

 I can then make it possible for all of me
 to work in my best interests.
 I know there are aspects
 about myself that puzzle me,
 and other aspects that

 I do not know.
 But as long as i am friendly
 and loving to myself,
 
i can courageously and hopefully look for the solutions to the puzzles
and for ways to find out more about me.
 However I look and sound,
 whatever I say and do,
 and whatever I think and feel at a given moment in time is me.

This is authentic and represents where i am at that moment in time.
 When I review later how
 I looked and sounded,
 what I said and did,
 and how i thought
 and felt,

 some parts may turn out to be unfitting.
 I can discard that which is unfitting,
 and keep that which proved fitting,
 and invent something new for that which I discarded.

I can see,
 hear,
 feel,
 think,
 say,
 and do.

I have the tools to survive,
 to be close to others,
 to be productive,
 And to make sense and order out of the world of people and things outside of me.

I own me,
 and therefore I can engineer me I am me and I am okay.

_copied of VIRGNIA's poem_