• Author: WILLIAMS, Thomas
• Editor: Smith, James "Mike"
• Newspaper: The Eastern Echo volume 4
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• Date: 09 Fall 1959
• Tags:
  poetry

I Am Life by THOMAS WILLIAMS

I am today and yesterday, the meaning of time, I am the compensating weariness, for sorrows of mind; I am the stage of life where each has a role To be lived—to be played in the face of a goal.

To be enacted without flaw, no emotions to be shed, To be held accountable for every word that is said; Yet I have endured with reason intact, Yet have I striven to face every fact.

I am two million people around one lonely soul, I am two million heartaches in one pot of gold; I am love without meaning, I am meaning without strife, I am joy, | am wisdom, I am sorrow—I AM LIFE.

I am the cries of a baby, I am the tears of many mothers, I am the friendship man shows toward ls many brothers; I am the tender caresses when lovers depart, I am the meaning of living, within every heart; I am the wars of a world with its pain and its strife, I am death and destruction—I AM LIFE.

I am a little boy playing in the minute grains of sand, I am the philosopher evaluating the theories of man; I am the earth within, the universe without, I am the soul of man, with all his torments and doubt; I am the lion in a cage who longs to be free, I am the fate of all men, and things that will be.

Yes! I am life, the ruler of all, The multitude of millions who come at my call; The weak and oppressed, the strong and the brave, The humble and pious, the thief and the knave.

Though I am worshipped by millions, I stand not in esteem, For those foolish ones who live in a dream; I am comfort to those who bear the pain and strife, I am all things to all men, I am God—I AM LIFE.