Poetry: I am - by Roxan Finnell

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by Roxan Finnell

Created on: May 09, 2008 Last Updated: August 24, 2009

I am simply complicated, haphazardly designed
Willingly stubborn, roughly refined.
Selfishly giving, uncertainly sure,
Generously stingy, wickedly pure.

Suspiciously trusting, quietly loud,
Richly poor, humbly proud.
Gently violent, viciously kind,
Hatefully loving, briefly consigned

Delicately harsh, graciously mean,
Exquisitely plain, dimly keen.
Feebly strong, savagely humane.
Naively sophisticated, rationally insane.

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