Undefined

"If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive." - Audre Lorde

self:  O.E. self, seolf, sylf "one's own person, same," "separate, apart"

"Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth." [Alan Watts]

To have you define me would be unjust

The business of definition belongs to the defined.

Your book defines me as 'black, but comely'

Your book is mistaken in this regard

I stand silhouetted in the light

I am black AND comely

Unapologetic

Bent,

I am,

Unfurling

Tried;

I stand the test of time

Feminist, writer, freethinker, equality seeker

Are adjectives that attempt to define me

Progressive pragmatic

Introverted excavator

Lucky and cursed

The only person I am better than is who I was yesterday

My sole competition stares back at me in the mirror.

Knocked down

Cut off

Left out

Brooding

I left my blood running

In uncharted waters

I swim

I will compromise, but never surrender

Even though I've tried to give up one too many times

I am

Limitless

Impatient

Unlimited

Enigma,

Unwritten

I am undefined...

"How can I accept a limited definable self when I feel, in me, all possibilities." — Anaïs Nin

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