Ego Ergo Amo

I didn’t know

Who I was

Because

I thought I was you

I didn’t know

What I wanted

So instead

I wanted to be you

It’d be ok

In a crowd

Surrounded

By stimulus

But home alone

In solitude

There’d be only

Listlessness

Who am I

What are we

Why even care

Into silence, scream

Just a kid

A singular soul

Is there purpose

What’s my role

Torturous

Those nights alone

Sleeping with

A knife

Crying

Praying I’d make it to dawn

Just clinging to my life

Cogito ergo sum

I think

Therefore

I am

Descartes tried

To reason out

How we know

We exist

But if no reason

Does exist

What then?

Maybe,

That’s the trick

There are reasonS

To exist

In each of us

There is a cause

Of free will

We are to pick

Cognizant

We are to choose

The thing that

Drives us quick

And if I am

To choose my fate

I will be bold

Not hesitate

So I’ve decided

Along the way

To christen myself

The dawn of that day

I will be fire

I will be light

I will be love

And I will fight

I will give purpose

To the kid

With a knife

I choose

To be a champion

Of truth

And might

I’m thankful for

this pain I feel

It truly is

a gift from above

Ego ergo amo

I am, therefore, I love

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