Are we our intentions?

Are we our effect?

Am I what I said,

Or am I what I meant?

Are we what has happened?

Are we what we choose?

Are we what we have?

What we lost?

What we’ll lose?

Am I my feelings,

My faces, my words?

Am I things that I like:

beer, music, and birds?

Am I what I think,

Or who others think of?

Are we who we hate,

Or who we claim to love?

Am I in the center,

Or am I on the edge?

Are we of the red dust,

Or of the green hedge?

Are we the indebted,

Or those who have paid?

Are we the makers,

Or are we the made?