Identity Crisis

What if I am lost?
Where might I turn?
Who am I, really?
The answers confuse me

I know them
I can hear them
I feel them in my soul
Voices shouting within

Am I a boy or a girl?
Am I this color or that?
Am I a person of God?
So many aspects to recall

Yet here I stand
Yet there I sit
Yet my heart cries out
Perhaps in fear of the truth

Where am I defined?
Where is my identity?
Who will give it to me?
The answer, in the end, is you.

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One of my favorite anime series is Ranma 1/2.  I am pretty sure I have mentioned it before; it’s about a boy who turns into a girl when he’s hit with cold water and then back to a boy when hit with hot water.  I recently got season one of this comedic Japanese show on DVD, and, as such things sometimes do, it inspired me a bit and I started dreaming up my own gender bending storyline.  I have even written some of it down in the form of yet another webcomic script and even started to draw it.  Anyway, the protagonist of my little farce has a significant identity crisis as a result–the male and female pieces are a little independent of each other–and so I thought of the above poem.

That’s all for this week.  See you on Monday.