What It Means to be Me
By: Jerry Landry
February 13, 2002

Who am I?
Five letters
J-E-R-R-Y
It doesn't seem to do me justice.

Add on six more
L-A-N-D-R-Y
Still not enough...

W-H-I-T-E
M-A-L-E
B-I
None of it gets to the heart of the matter.

Who am I?
What are these labels?
What do they mean?
Can all that I am be captured in a phrase?

Get to the heart of the matter
H-E-A-R-T
How can an organ pumping blood
Describe my daily wave of emotions?
Am I doomed to languish in an ignorant purgatory?

S-M-A-R-T
People call me that a lot
Yet how smart can I really be
When I can't even tell what it means to be me?

M-E
Short and to the point.
Is that what I am?
M-E
Is that all that I am?

What does it mean to be me?
B-E
M-E

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