When my time has come
And my body should die
And pass from this world to the great beyond
To join the great guitar solo in the sky
There is only one thing
Of the treasures I find
That I want to pass on
To those left behind
The answer to the questions
People asked me over again
That I struggled to answer
Since my journey began
Where did you come from?
Where will you go?
What really matters?
Are you living ‘just so’?
Are you doing the things
Every morning and night
That make you a good person?
So you don’t lose “the fight”?
Are you on the right side?
Do you think the right way?
Do you follow without question
What other people say?
Are you earning your worth?
Did you pay the right price?
Did you deny your human nature?
Did you make a sufficient sacrifice?
What is the answer
I struggled to give?
Over sleepless nights and wet pillows
What was my reason to live?
It took a long time
Hard talks and worse days
To find the answer I needed
To light up my ways
A moment of darkness
Gave way to awareness
Of my true Self and destiny
The nature of Oneness
I AM
Is what I found
Or, rather, myself
That I am one with all that surrounds
What is my purpose?
I AM
Why do I live?
I AM
Where did I come from?
The one I call I AM
To experience life
The greatest of jams
Where am I going?
Back to the embrace of the One
That is known by a thousand names
To rest from my journey when I am done
When the cycle repeats
And my soul is born anew
To dance once again
I’ll still be One with you
I AM is us, you, them, and me
We knew us before
For there are no barriers in I AM
And I will know you once more
When this world fades away
And we bid the universe adieu
I AM is what remains
Just me and you
I AM is within and without
I AM always was and is to be
I AM is the dark and I AM is the light
I AM is you, I AM is me
I AM is the bad days
And I AM is endless peace
Perfect in imperfection
And joy that will never cease
I AM is the answer
For every tear
My path and my guide
That leaves no place for fear
A great circle of creation
An unending dance
Of I AM, around and around
Through the infinite expanse
This one gift to my children
The knowledge of one
Of self-love and joy
Is what I’ll leave when I’m done
They won’t need greed
Because they already have it all
All that is, was, and will be
The great and the small
They won’t feel the rush
They won’t run the rat race
Because the flow of I AM
Will help them find their pace
They won’t feel loneliness
Through heartache and fun
They will see themselves in others
Beautiful aspects of the unnameable One
They won’t wander for happiness
Because their joy comes from within
Not money or titles
Or being pretty or thin
They won’t judge each other
Because life is a dance
We learn and we love
We get more than one chance
I AM
This is all I know
I AM
Where I’m from and where I’ll go
I AM
There is nothing more
I AM
This is what I’m here for
I AM
I want to give my girls
I AM
My treasures of a thousand worlds
I wrote this poem while sitting at my daughters’ gymnastics session. There isn’t much else for me to do besides sit and think since I am trying to reduce the amount of time I spend staring at my phone. I started thinking about the kinds of things I would want to give them to help them be successful, or have happy lives. And this is what came to me.
