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If I Am
If I am the Sun
Let me light their darkness.
If I am the Moon
Let me raise their souls.
If I am the Stars
Let me help them wonder.
If I am the Fire
Let them warm by me.
If I am the Earth
Let them grow from me.
If I am the Water
Let them drink of me.
-Paul Whiting
(a.k.a., Three Dark Horses)
"I am the darkness which brings the light!"
My Spiritual Notes:
The reason that I wrote this poem can be summed up with the following statement: I wrote this poem when I worked with troubled youth, which helped me to realize that I was really trying to heal myself by trying to heal the troubled youth! So, that is why I decided to go into therapy, since I needed to work through some major issues stemming from my truly dysfunctional childhood.
And this poem was also published on my "Small All White in the Forest" and "Paul Whiting — A Creative Writer" blogs (please see the hyperlinks below for the blogs), since I feel that the message in this poem applies to the message that I am trying to convey through "Small All White in the Forest" and "Paul Whiting — A Creative Writer."
This poem was written in Salt Lake City, Utah.
-Paulee
https://smallallwhiteintheforest.blogspot.com
https://paulwhitingwriting.blogspot.com
P.S.: If you are interested in reading all of the posts in the series I wrote that include the poem "If I Am" from the above-mentioned blogs, which are listed under the post title, "For My Students, Part 1" through "For My Students, Part 3" on both of my "Small All White in the Forest" and "Paul Whiting — A Creative Writer" blogs, please see the hyperlinks below:
https://smallallwhiteintheforest.blogspot.com/search/label/For%20My%20Students
https://paulwhitingwriting.blogspot.com/search/label/For%20My%20Students
P.P.S.: If you are interested in reading all of the posts in the series I wrote that include the poem "If I Am" from the above-mentioned blogs, which are listed under the post label, "I Am..." on my "Small All White in the Forest" and "Paul Whiting — A Creative Writer" blogs, please see the hyperlinks below:
https://smallallwhiteintheforest.blogspot.com/search/label/I%20Am...
https://paulwhitingwriting.blogspot.com/search/label/I%20Am...
This "Three Dark Horses" Post No. 007 was edited on May 5th, 2024.
"Poetry is using the fewest words possible in order to describe all that is possible to describe." –Paul Whiting [June 1st, 2022]
