Who we are
– A poetry by Anamika Mishra
We are not names,
not bios carefully written in perfect lines,
not the versions of ourselves
we perform for a watching world.
We are the pause
between two thoughts
the place where truth slips in
unannounced.
We are unfinished sentences,
meanings still forming,
stories that refuse
to stay the same.
We are the quiet knowing
we ignore during the day
and hear most clearly
in the middle of the night.
We are every version
we have ever been
the healed, the hurting,
the becoming, the undone.
We are not lost.
Just layered.
Not broken.
Just remembering
in pieces.
We are the questions
that don’t need answers,
the feeling that something
more exists within us.
And maybe
we are not here to define ourselves at all.
Maybe we are here
to experience,
to shift,
to return
again and again
to something that has always been there.
So who we are?
We are
the journey
and the return
at the same time.
