Stanzas: Monthly Chapbooks March 2015: Identity | Page 9

I Am
Jason O’Donnell
I know you better than you know yourself
and that is true.
I see right through you, no one else can see the things
I see in you.
It’s a gift to see what I see, it’s part of who I am –
your darkest thoughts, your deepest secrets
none of which you can ever keep from me.
You know who I am,
I am the one who saved you
when God left you to the dogs,
I am the shadow you shared the footpath with
when you walked alone, when the days are cold
I am the very rage keeping [