Stanzas: Monthly Chapbooks March 2015: Identity | Page 2

Who Are You?

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pertinent question indeed. It seems with every passing day the answer becomes
more and more ellusive. When we were little, running around in nappies, bows
on our toes and shoes in our hair, it all seemed to make sense. We were firemen, doctors, teachers, superheroes, teenage mutant ninja turtles, and spaceships: all rolled into
one. We were sure of it.
And now, now we’ve aged that little bit, still kids at heart, still trying to figure out
how to grow, still thinking we’re superheroes but ever more conscious of the villains.
The baddies are not so easilly beat with fancy gadgets and green rocks. Not when
we’re no longer certain who the good guys are.
But at least we have our words. The worlds created when we crank open the screen
of the laptop and stare the blinking cursor of death in the eye. Writers expeditioning
across the white plain of LED backlighting, forcing imagination onto document.
We’re not sure of anything anymore. But we’re sure of this, we do love pretty words.
So whatever you are, be ye hero or villain, keep writing. It’s all that matters to us.
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