I AM MAN, I AM WOMAN

I am Man, I am Woman

I have stood over the pits of Hell

bounded alone facing my own demons,

my own ego.

I have been scarred

and bled for ideas

that plagued my conscious

to be voiced,

I voiced them.

I have stood in the shadows

of other men's minds,

and wondered in amazement

at their security in foolishness.

I mourn knowing

that the rest of my race

stands above this pit

it will be too late;

my Hell now

is their Hell to come.

Yet on they go

rushing ever forward

running straight for the very thing

they think they have escaped from.

I have witnessed

the rise and fall

of mighty empires,

I have seen the fall

of greater men than I.

I have witnessed many wars

and have seen how men

can destroy

the very thing they love.

I have watched gods

come and go

each one weaker and more pathetic

than the before.

I was there when

the pyramids were built,

I was there when Atlantis

sunk beneath the waves.

I am Man, I am Woman

I have the capacity to love

with every fiber in me,

I can hate with the same

fierce countenance.

I have the soul of a romantic,

the heart of a lover,

but my spirit can rise up

with the fierceness of a warrior,

a berserker.

I am a dreamer and  poet,

a dancer and musician

I've written curses and blessings,

truths and lies.

I can be as complex

as I can be simple,

good as I can be evil,

soft as I can be hard.

I have walked among the blessed

and the damned alike,

the rich and the poor,

the mortal and immortal.

I have saved

many lives and souls,

I have escorted many

to their final resting place.

I am Man, I am Woman

many things have I been

I have been mother, father,

sister, brother, son and daughter.

I have been lawyer, cop

criminal and shaman.

I have saved and been saved,

killed and been killed,

hated and been hated,

loved and been loved.

I have learned wisdom

and knowledge,

been brainwashed

and used as a puppet;

I wrote the propaganda.

I am Man, I am Woman

I have sailed the seven seas,

climbed majestic mountains,

crawled across the desert floor.

I have been slave and master,

black and white,

yellow and red

I have been all things.

 One day, when the race is done,

and Gaia, the Earth

has no more need  for me,

and the time of

my ascension has come.

There will be a spoor

of my passing left,

enough for another species to say ;

" This was man, this was Woman