What I Am

Looking back on a sea of dreams

Summer walks on the sandy shore

When we strolled through life without a care

And we wanted more

So much more

And the memory lives on

Merging with the others

With all the things I’ve done

Becoming what I am

Walking out on a winters day

Footfall dragging on the frozen ground

Leave behind the sweetest time I have known

With not a sound

Not a single sound

And the memory lives on

Merging with the others

With all the things I’ve done

Becoming what I am

Striding out on the solo trail

Single steps on the lonely road

Moving forward on the path that I chose

Leaving on my own

No one home

And the memory lives on

Merging with the others

With all the things I’ve done

Becoming what I am

On the path decisions made

Have been the ones made selfishly

Forks in the broken road taken by chance

Letting me be free

Set me free

And the memories live on

Merge with all the others

With all the things I’ve done

Becoming what I am

What I am

Is the sum of what I’ve been

The total of my choices

The culmination of my dreams

All those memories that I keep,

Linger deep within my psyche

Brought me here, 
Sure and prepared

That sum of all I was,

Becoming what I am

© Fergus Martin

2012