Identities

It is time, I have realized

For my identities to be reorganized

To shuffle my various identities around

Change up their order because I have not found

Contentment in my primary identity as a professional

That has become the default, but it is not intentional

Because my professional identity has been the hardest to attain

It does not imply that my primary identity it should remain

Just because my professional identity helps me pay the bills

Does not mean it is the identity that my cup fills…

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I would like to embody the identities

Of a reader, a writer, a creator, because these

Are the ones that I’ve realized fill up

My parched soul, my empty cup

If I identify myself as an individual creative

A more inspired life I hope to live

Even though at this stage it is hard to tell

It might enhance my professional identity as well