I Have Become

I Have Become.
I have become what I have lost, and I have become what I have learned.
I have become everything I turned away, and I have become everything I embraced.
I have become a reality.
I have become more than a vision, or a dream, or a hope, or a guess.
I have become differently than I, or anyone had thought.
I have grown more dimensions than any school picture, first impression, or handshake could elude to.
I have become more daring than any plan I had organized or adventure I set out on.
I have become more and I have become less.
I have become well.
I have become at costs, and at times, have struggled to become.
I have become what I inevitably am now, at the mercy of all my own choices.
I have become the hour of the early morning that keeps only the anxious, and truly tired awake and wondering.
I have become the fervent cursive writing on a page, angled upwards so words can come quicker.
I have become the sound of the door closing at 2 am, and I have danced in the silence after it locks.
I have become the chorus of a good rock song, and the lyrics to an undiscovered tune.
I have become paint strokes, kind exchanges, and understanding.
I have learned to become the high road.
I have become an ensemble of every photo taken of me.
I have adopted the smiles, styles and memories of times captured while all the while, I have been the camera, picking up everything I document, accumulating and replacing everything I have become and am yet to become.
Changing, Snapping, Capturing.
I have become about completely imperfectly, clumsily, and hysterically.
I have chosen to become a darker side, and I have embraced and fostered my brighter side with open arms.
I have become a combination of everything I said I never would be, everything I have hoped I would be, and everything I never dreamed I could be.
I have become the living evidence of my own impact on this world and those around me.
I have become a voice that yells, that rejoices and questions.
I have been afraid, but I have become brave.
I have missed and reflected on what I once became.
I worry and plan and dream on what I have yet to become.
I have learned to accept the times I didn't like what I had become, and enjoy what I have become now.
I have become all the things, and people, and experiences who have passed through my proximity.
I have become all my lovely, trying, prevailing, exciting, monumental and heartbreaking times.
More than anything, I have become only the things, people and experiences that I allowed to shape what I have become.
I have began, and I am becoming, but most importantly,
I Have Chosen To Become.