Analysis of Who Am I?



Who am I?
To keep profiled?
And kept to identify?

At what time of day,
Would you prefer I say?
Morning, noon or night?
If I stayed the same way,
Without a change made...
Still you will insist,
My actions to perform them...
Are different to be recognized.

Yet who I am,
To have become the me to be...
Is a process of blooming.
From a child to adult.
And this to do shouldn't be a mystery.
Although I will admit,
Never before had I done this to witness.
Or expect to be questioned,
As to why I am who I am...
Not to remember,
A childhood and games with you I played.
As if at my age,
And yours as well...
You expect me to have total recall.
Living to do nothing else at all,
But sit.
Reminiscing a childhood.
Gone to no longer exist.
While you attempt with time to waste.
Hoping I would lie and deny,
How well you look to have aged gracefully.
But the truth and reality I am blessed to live,
These days?
There is nothing left of our youthful days,
Neither one us could claim to say...
Is still in our minds.
When I know in my own mind,
I'm trying to remember...
Who I was and what I did to do yesterday.
Then to thank God for helping me,
Find my door keys.
In my hand to wonder,
Who is shaking them to get my attention!

'Will you stop exaggerating!'

Exaggerating?
When you called my name,
What then did you see me do?

'Well...
You did look around.
To see who I was talking to.
And I laughed thinking you were joking!'

Oh?
Well...
The joke is on you.
Since I still don't remember you at all.
Or the elementary school we attended,
Over 70 years ago.

'I am surprised.
You haven't changed at all!'

Have you tried rushing to the bathroom,
With the lights out?
Hoping to find it.
Before you mistake the bathtub,
For the toilet?

'LOL...
Stop lieing.
That did not happen.'

Oh?
Check this out.
I once took my dentures out to brush them.
The upper one.
My lower teeth are mine.
Anyhow...
And for whatever the reason,
They ended up in the refrigerator.
Of all places.
I finally found them.
Next to the chicken.
When I decided it probably would be easier,
If I made chicken soup to eat.

'I gotta go.'

Don't do it here.
Or ask me to assist you.
You old folks always seeking companionship!
And...
It doesn't matter who it is,
When that need arrives.
Trust me.
If you gotta go.
Do it alone.
Don't embarrass yourself.

'Yep.
Good advice.
You haven't changed.'

Now?
I keep the bathroom light on.


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Poetic Form
Metre 111 111 011010 11111 110111 10111 111011 01011 11101 1101011 11001110 1111 11010111 101110 101101 01111010100 11101 10011111110 1011110 11111111 11010 01011111 11111 0111 101111101 101110111 11 01001 1111001 11011111 10111001 1111111100 10101011111 11 11101110101 10111111 110101 1110111 1101010 11101111110 11111101 1111 011110 11101111010 1110100 0100 11111 1111111 1 11101 11111101 011101010 1 1 01111 1111010111 1001011010 10101 1101 110111 11110101 1011 10111 01101010 1010 1 11 11110 1 111 1111101111 0101 110111 10 0110010 1101000100 1110 110011 11010 1110110011100 11110111 1101 1111 1111011 111110010 0 11010111 11101 11 11101 1101 101001 1 101 1101 1 110111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 2,398
Words 571
Sentences 77
Stanzas 15
Stanza Lengths 3, 8, 33, 1, 3, 4, 6, 2, 5, 3, 13, 1, 10, 3, 2
Lines Amount 97
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 118
Words per stanza (avg) 30
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Written on September 06, 2023

Submitted by lpahtillah on September 06, 2023

Modified by lpahtillah on September 06, 2023

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