Statements

I once read a little statement that resonated in my head for a very long time, I'm not sure if you can call it a poem but I feel like it was. For the life of me, I can't even remember where I read it.

Stop trying to find yourself,
And start creating yourself.

To me, that sounded like the ultimate conundrum.

How do you create yourself? isn't life supposed to be about finding who you are?
I like that it means that instead of just waiting to find out who you are in your life, you make who you are, you can be whoever you please in your own storyline, not just sit around waiting for it to happen.

You can create yourself into the kind of person you want to be.

Words

I think words have power.

Poetry is a form that words take, and in that same way, poems have power.
Perhaps not power so great that we can always see it or feel it, but a word can cause a ripple in someone's life so profound that it shapes them.

A poem that might seem meaningless to most people can make a certain few shiver, and a poem that does that to me is this little piece by a poet who existed a long time ago.

Taliesin Ben Beirdd

I have been a multitude of shapes before I assumed a consistent form.
I have been a sword, narrow, variegated,
I have been a tear in the air,
I have been a word among letters,
I have been a book in the origin.