Tomorrow Project Challenges
Who are you, and why are you here?
This challenge comes from YWP Alumni Advisor Isabella Daignault-Bailey who based it on an essay prompt from a college class. "It's a great prompt to ask, who are you, without the words 'I am'?" Isabella said. "I remember really enjoying it because of its open-ended nature."
[Photo credit: "A Remade World in Wynwood, Miami," by H20.hollym, YWP Archive]
Who are you, you ask? Why, that's an incredibly good question. I don't know. I ask myself that every day, and I still don't know who I am. I don't know who I want to be, or what I want to do when I grow up.
i don't know who i am
nor do i think i ever will
but
i want to be so much.
i want to be a poet,
carefully nurturing
then raising and sharing,
the sustenance of the soul.
Oh, no, I’m not here
For a reason.
It’s an almost comforting thing
The fleck of light of a chance
The infinite things
That had to go right.
If I were a different person
I am but
One speck in the Universe,
One piece of the world,
One person amidst a billion.
I am just