Ask me...

Ask me who I am
I will tell you

I am LIKE the ocean
Harsh & changing
Yet gentle & calm at the depths of its heart
I am THE mother yet a child
I am the friend & the wife
I am the giver
Of the breath of life
With the blood I shed every month
I am whole
yet I am incomplete
I am everything & yet
I am nothing
I am what I AM
Sum of all that was & that will be

& yet I will remain
Reticent with a smile upon my lips
Until THAT time you ask
Me
Who I am
& Whom I've been!