I Am...

I started to speak the words
"I am..."
and then my sentence
confined me to a cage
that I couldn't see
This cage of words
limited what I am
and what I might be

Then I started to say "We"
committing a greater crime
betraying myself and others
by diluting each individual
into a formless/nameless mass

After that I went on
and confined us all
to some other all-inclusive
sentencing of the same nature
and we all went along this way
for far too obliviously long

Now I struggle with it
trying to be more than
what I said I am...
and trying instead
to live accordingly
with what things
simply are
and the notion that
like all these things
the fullest truth is that
I am...