Identity from Sundial Tree by Michelle Lynn Ptacek

Needed a new conclusion to what I was doing
Proving can’t disguise illusion
Maybe I am only a collection
Memories of places I haven’t been

Needed a new set of skin to crawl through life in
I tried to shed it and was buried instead
Repress or represent
Depends on which way you like to bend

Well hello I don’t know you either
I’m replaceable maybe you’re the keeper
To be reborn was all I wanted
Maybe I was too vague
I had it surrounded and then it slipped free
Abandoned it followed me home

Well hello I don’t know you either
I’m replaceable maybe you’re the keeper

Identity is easily confiscated
I became what I hated
And now it’s create or be created
I bet I better live it to be reborn
All I want

My heart’s the size of your fist
Original come back kid come back to your senses
Maybe life is only memorizing a blur
And proof is the lie told backwards

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