"I Am" by John Claire

I Am. All that we can be in life and all that we wish to attain and hopefully someday will are products of what we know and who we are. I Am. The speaker is alone in his or her struggle through life; alone in the sense that he or she is really the only way that can relate to whatever is happening. We are alone that way as well. The world is filled with a vast amount of vanity and selfishness and not enough selflessness, and as a result we become the sole "self-consumer of our woes." The world revolves around what it knows regardless of the life cycle.