A Higher State of Self

What is fate?

Are we preordained to follow a path of another’s design?

Or are we able to choose our own?

Can we find our way back when we are lost?

Or is being lost part of the journey of finding who we are?

I have traveled

I have lost who I was

Yet gained who I was to become

I have remnants of a past yet to bury

Chains that shall weigh me down no more

I am taking the harder choice

But empowered that I need not go alone

I shall become me

I shall grow

I shall be

That in which I was always fated to be

A man

A father

A husband

A friend

A poet

A sage

The hero of my own soul

I am better than I allowed myself to be

I am now my own becoming

I am my own road

I am