i I

Let me say what i want to say what I need to say.

I am not the hushed

or strict fingered lip pressed shh: i am I.

i becomes I when i become I.

I am myself when I am I, not i.

Hear this:

i is the building block but I am the building,

i is the child but I am the man,

i is the shy, the cornered, the weak,

I am the bold, the brave enough to speak.

At end of days of doubt,

disapproval or belittlement,

I reassure myself of this: I am I, not i.

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