Who I Am

This is the second half of the conversation we had as I heard "Slut" that very first time. I haven't written a non-senryu/haiku poem since college (over 20 years ago). So, to watch my fingers type "For So Long" onto the computer screen with little to no input from my conscious brain was pretty amazing.  But to watch another poem pour itself out after mine was as close to a religious experience as I've ever had.  I knew he wasn't aware of what he had written...I had to tell him to look at what was on his monitor. Here it is for you to share...

Who I Am     by E.M. Phoenix     5/21/2010

music...and my writing...

are the best ways into my soul

who I am

what I am

me without pretense

without facade

disguise

or any kind of hidden...

and I speak

from those places within

through other peoples words

their music

and the music of my own passions 

spilled out through my words

that is who i am

this is who i am