I have responded to this inquiry many times, <br />though I cannot immediately. <br />Where shall I begin? Perhaps the most perceptible? An accomplishment? <br />My educators have tested me to make me superior. <br />I reckon I shall open with my name: let it be acknowledged, <br />and if I become successful, <br />this bond will unite us, even in the course of separation. <br /> <br />Yuan yuan is my name, <br />and elegant girl from the capital is its significance. <br />My curiosity has made me who I am today, <br />which is all but an unknown characteristic of mine. <br />This prominence has gone in circulation to the moon's crescent. <br />My dwelling place is in the shadows of the Lama temple, <br />under a large tree. <br />Though my home lands lie in the northeast, <br />where the sky is an ongoing pool of the azure ocean, <br />where the grass and trees are a million shades of green, <br />where the most important people of my existence remain. <br />My family. <br />Circumstances detain me in this foreign land of my birth, <br />and while the blood that runs in my veins is that of my Chinese ancestry, <br />my soul yearns for the true north, strong and free. <br />Alas, I have come to accept my present location, <br />an alleyway, long and narrow, <br />with the pigeons in flight above my head, <br />the sizzling of oil as the men and women of my hutong produce their everyday meals, <br />and I realize that I am of them yet not one of them, <br />I realize I have succeeded by accepting my destiny...<br /><br />Yuan Yuan Kelly<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/who-am-i-written-in-the-style-of-homer/
