I Am....
I am an artist.
Some see their life in number.
Some see their life in diction.
But I? I see the world in colors.
I see smooth, open plains,
ready to be molded with light.
I am a leopard moving fluidly,
through tall, shining grass
to shape a world of meaning.
I'm one hundred shades of light
that change with my scene.
I am a creator of silent wind,
of motionless water,
of frozen time.
But to me it all moves,
because I...am an artist.
I am an actor.
To mold my deepest emotions is my field.
My field of colorful flowers I mold to my my liking.
I am a conformist to the person I am told to be
on a bright, open stage.
I become a different being in the spotlight.
I amplify the smallest emotions
to create a new person.
To others, that's all it is...an act.
But to me,
it's an art.
I am a musician.
I am a musician who finds herself when she's lost.
Who finds herself by getting lost.
I know how to lose myself
in the rushing waters of my sound.
I am a builder of walls around my soul
just to tear them down
with fluid, unforgiving music.
I am a musician who breaths in the water
when I find myself drowning.
I find myself when I am lost.
I find myself by getting lost.
I am a musician.
I am a searcher.
I search through the movement of
one hundred sounds in one.
I search through the changes in my soul
to be another.
I search through ten-thousand colors together
to make a moment.
I'll search for solace in a world
where peace is underrated,
options are limited,
and too many are dejected.
Where the road to understanding
is broken, long and lonely.
But still I search because I
am a searcher,
of serenity,
of peace,
of understanding,
of balance.
But I am most of all...me.
I am still searching for myself
in the ice of the stars,
in the rush of the wind,
in the crash of the waves.
Through art, music, acting, and life,
I am searching for me.
Meagan Johnson
13 years old
13 years old
December 2012
