who I AM

Memories wash over me
Wave after wave
Flooding my mind

Splashing their colors
Across the blank
Canvas of my life

Some cut deep
Others merely graze
The surface

A collage of experience's
Painting growth

Not a self portrait

I am before
I am after

I am a tree
Spreading it's branches
To the light

I dig my roots
Through rock and soil
Easy and hard

I have weathered
Many season's

But I am not the weather
Nor the season's

I am before
I am after

What I have done
What's been done to me

I am more than these

You are...
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Do you see?