CELEBRATING A TAPESTRY OF LIFE
Juanita Book

By Juanita Torrence-Thompson

©Copyright by Juanita Torrence-Thompson

JUANITA TORRENCE-THOMPSON is a poet/writer/speaker whose award-winning work appears in U.S. and Canadian journals and online. See her poetry and book information at: Poetry Town. See Barbara Hantman's review of Torrence-Thompson's CELEBRATING A TAPESTRY OF LIFE (Torderwarz Publishing Company)at: The Pedestal Magazine

I Think I Am Someone

I THINK I AM SOMEONE I think I am someone
The way I glide my hips
when I walk
The way I slide my tongue
when I talk
I am someone

I think I am someone
The way I think before I leap
The way I cruise when I sleep
I am someone

I think I am someone
The way I attack a project
Time is no object
I am someone

I think I am someone
The way I help a friend
I analyze to no end
I am someone

I think I am someone
The way I empathize, moralize
mobilize, philosophize
I am someone

I think I am someoje special
My ancestors were African kings and queens
doctors, lawyers, teachers,
abolitionists and preachers,
inventors and writers of the dream
I think, therefore I know,
I am someone