Guidepost (poem)

This poem came from an intense, introspective journaling session on who I believe myself to be at my core Lately it feels like everything in life is changing more quickly than I can make sense of it. A realization hit me the other day: I haven't felt like myself in awhile; at the same time, I don't know if there's a version of myself I can easily return to. So many things that feel fundamental have shifted. I can recognize this is in many ways an uncomfortable yet unavoidable part of the human experience. Life/time is constantly ticking forward. The present is both an instant and every instant. Still, I thought it would do me some good to list out a few things that will more or less always be true; an anchor or guidepost to lead me back to a sense of core self. This list became a poem, and now it lives here. ✦ ✧ ✦ I am a caring and social creature. I am a collection of experiences, of feelings in the shape of a human I am a spiritual being; an air sign, I listen to what the winds…