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Everything I Am
Sometimes,
I want to give
you everything I am,
hand myself over to you,
turn myself into you
—not to lose myself—
but to remember
who we are.
You and I
are one and the
same—we are equals.
And recently, I have been
calling upon the part of
you that is the part of
me that I was
missing.
This
part of me has
now returned and
I wish to thank you for
what you gave to me
when I was so
greatly in
need.
Now,
I wish to
surrender myself to
you—lay myself down
for you—be to you
what you have
been for
me.
So,
with this gift,
I promise to be a
light for you in the
darkness, a friend
for you when
you are in
need.
I give
this to you
as a symbol of
myself, as a reminder
of what I am to you.
For, it speaks of
everything
I am.
-Paul Whiting
(a.k.a., A Creative Writer)
"I maybe say too much about how life really is!"
My Writing Notes:
The reason that I wrote this poem can be summed up with the following statement: Being the "Neo Hippy" that I am, I was trying to find a communal-style living situation, where I could live as sustainably as possible and also be the naturist that I am!
And the summer of 2000, and part of the autumn, I worked at Breitenbush Hot Springs, which is a bathing-area clothing-optional resort and convention center in Detroit, Oregon. And that is where I met Japheth (pronounced "jay-peth"), who is like My Soul Brother.
And I wrote this poem for "Jay" (which is his nickname), and also gave him an amethyst crystal necklace (which was similar to the one illustrating this poem), as a way to say "Thank you for being there for me when I needed you!" At the time, I was living with Jay, as a roommate, in the house that he and his boyfriend, Sean, bought in Portland.
And I wrote this poem right after I had gone to see a Shamanic Counselor and I had a spontaneous "Soul Retrieval," because a part of my soul had returned that had left when I was younger, due to that part of my soul fearing being given away! You see, when I saw this Shamanic Counselor about another issue, this part of my soul felt like returning to live with me again, since that part of my soul felt safe again, because I was healing.
And this poem was also published on my "Small All White in the Forest" blog (please see the hyperlink below for the blog), since I feel that the message in this poem applies to the message that I am trying to convey through "Small All White in the Forest."
This poem was written in Portland, Oregon.
-Paulee
https://smallallwhiteintheforest.blogspot.com
This "Paul Whiting — A Creative Writer" Post No. 071 was edited on November 5th, 2023.
"Poetry is using the fewest words possible in order to describe all that is possible to describe." –Paul Whiting [June 1st, 2022]
