10-13-2003 <br /> <br />I am not this one that lives inside of me <br />I am something more <br /> <br />I am the taste of all my lovers <br />I am their touch smudged on my skin <br />I am their promises, <br />mostly broken <br />(but they were true when they were made) <br />And I am my own broken promises, <br />to myself and to them <br /> <br />I am the love and the hate that I lived <br />My fears, my disappointments <br />all I ever tasted <br />everything that brushed against my skin <br />sometimes with thorns, sometimes with tenderness <br /> <br />I have even become the Lovers themselves! <br />I am their scent, their warm breath <br />their sigh, their explosion. <br /> <br />I am their sadness when they saw me leave <br />and my gulp when I left. <br /> <br />And I am their lovers after me <br />and their lovers before we met! <br /> <br />I am not just that one that lives inside of me, <br />I am all of my lovers <br />and they are Myself <br /> <br />And I take all this with me when I die one day <br />I don't die whole <br />I leave pieces of me with them<br /><br />Alina Gavrila<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-have-become-more-than-myself/
