Identity Crisis

Identity Crisis

A Poem by Pete
"

We boil at different degrees. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"
i wish someone would recognize me
stopping and telling me who i am
'cuz i sure as hell don't know anymore



© 2021 Pete


Author's Note

Pete
"Be yourself - not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be." - Thoreau

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I don:t suffer from that yet Pete. Maybe because I am surrounded by family who are always calling my name. Nan.yes, that:s me. Maybe if I lived alone I would forget who I am. I am lucky I am not lonely. Many are. That is not a good place to be if you feel your identity is going.

Chris

Posted 2 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Pete

2 Years Ago

just when we get comfortable with who we are in this fast-moving world, things go and change and so .. read more



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"Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are."

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe.

So few words with such a magnificent meaning. I can relate on so many levels.

Posted 2 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Pete

2 Years Ago

great quote - a lot of truth in it. i'd like to comment more but i have no idea who you are and my .. read more
SheIsMe

2 Years Ago

She's a wise woman.
I don:t suffer from that yet Pete. Maybe because I am surrounded by family who are always calling my name. Nan.yes, that:s me. Maybe if I lived alone I would forget who I am. I am lucky I am not lonely. Many are. That is not a good place to be if you feel your identity is going.

Chris

Posted 2 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Pete

2 Years Ago

just when we get comfortable with who we are in this fast-moving world, things go and change and so .. read more
Yes, I forget who I am sometimes...
and need others to remind me...

not fun to have those lapses.

Posted 2 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Pete

2 Years Ago

life is changing so quickly - cell phones, amazon, drones, uber ... i hardly recognize myself anymor.. read more
jacob erin-cilberto

2 Years Ago

I think i hear the werewolves of london howling, Pete.
Pete

2 Years Ago

warren zevon, what a creative talent. it was either that or 'lawyers, guns and money'. he went way.. read more
excellent poem, Pete. I can empathize with these words at times. I feel they speak to our nature of never wanting to be forgotten, and our own fear of forgetting ourselves in the process. Thank you for sharing.

Posted 2 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Pete

2 Years Ago

than yous carlos. perhaps that is partly why people like looking at old photographs - to remind ..... read more

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