I Am Me.

[Creative Writing Assignment I dug up from senior year of high school.
I altered some of it.]

I AM ME.
I am from a wide array of colors on a spectrum... with the respected shades of grey...
From the flashy MAC eye shadow shades I paint on my eyes to the natural god given pigments of my skin, hair and darkest brown eyes...
I am from a place that knows nothing about quiet.. and where no one can hold still...
I am from a family who treats life as if it was a MONOPOLY board. Just one in a many closely knit group of kin who only care to see in black & white...
A place where secrets aren't kept, your trust is defied and life's not meant to be fair...
I'm from the bleach white walls of the Taj Mahal that I've never seen with my own eyes to the sweet smell of fog coming in from across the bay I breathe in every morning...
I'm from a society where my high heel shoes tap-tap-tapping down through the halls are condemned under a glass ceiling we still can't seem to break...
I must "look like the innocent flower, be the serpent underneath"
I WALK ON THE EDGE OF THE WORLD [&] [THE] [CENTER] [OF] [THE] [UNIVERSE] [SIMULTANEOUSLY] and one who lives every moment as if it were their last...
"I'm cards on the table. I'm spilled milk."
My every word is dipped in poison yet steeped in honey, sweet & laid on thick.
I am all of my favorite words in the dictionary combined into one scrupulous arrangement of a sentence.
I am a scientist & hopelessly devoted to my etiological agents...
I slip faster than a wet bar of soap and fall harder than cold rain in winter.
& i'd love it if you caught me once.
I am from both the neatly organized & shelved photo albums sitting in perfect chronological order as well as the chaotic mass of photos scattered&shattered on the floor
that I just became a part of...
& there's no turning back...