1 I am here because my life is learning
2 I am here because boredom is staleness
3 I am here for new eyes
4 I am here for worn shoes
5 I am here to try a part that’s new

6 I am here for the drink and what comes with
7 I am here for the concrete jungles at night
8 I am here for new light
9 I am here to shine bright
10 I am here to brush off the needless rough

11 I am here because I want to be
12 I am here to spend some time with me
13 I am here for a shoulder
14 I am here for a hand
15 I am here, sometimes, for no glorious plans

16 And I am here, sometimes, because my mind has run wild
17 I am here to be launched into the open air
18 I am here so that the wax may melt
19 I am here to be caught
20 I am here to face fear

21 I am here to discover a deeper me
22 I am here to find out which path to take
23 I am here to let go
24 I am here to hold on
25 I am here because I must find of what I’m made

26 I am here to unapologetically witness beauty
27 I am here to unapologetically witness sense
28 I am here to feel
29 I am here to taste
30 I am here to unapologetically try my hand and mind

31 I am here to evolve into a better me
32 I am here to find out just where I have been
33 I am here to reflect
34 I am here to react
35 I am here to move forward in my own world

36 I am here to prove something to myself
37 and to those I love
38 and to those I don’t
39 And I am here to learn how to let go of naught
40 I am here to learn how to hold on to my alls

41 I am here, sometimes, selflessly
42 I am here to listen and learn and teach
43 I am here to offer my hand and mind
44 I am here to offer the waves of my tides
45 And I am here to simply love, sometimes

46 I am here because the cat dragged me in
47 I am here through no mind of my own
48 I am here because someone said yes
49 and someone said no
50 but no one said bless

51 I am here to learn to accept what is mine
52 I am here to learn that I am fine
53 I am here to learn that others are there
54 I am here to learn hearts
55 I am here to learn tears

56 I am here to open up my eyes
57 I am here to open my heart
58 and mind
59 and whatever’s left, to open too
60 I am here to accept a fearful truth

61 I am here to detox from my own lies
62 I am here to let go of the falsehoods I learned
63 I am here at the twist of my own arm
64 I am here to believe
65 I am here to return

66 I am here to smile at others
67 and me
68 and nothing
69 and all
70 and to find an old me

71 I am here to embrace the who-I-have-been
72 I am here for reasons I still don’t remember
73 I am here for reasons I still don’t believe
74 I am here to emerge
75 I am here to relearn

76 I am here to make change I want to see
77 I am here to restructure where I have been
78 I am here to mould
79 I am here to reform
80 I am here because I can frame what others can’t see

81 I am here to discover just why I am
82 I am here to discover just what I am
83 and who I am
84 and where I am
85 and to lose all sense of when I am

86 I am here to take charge of my life
87 I am here to repent with each added line
88 I am here to be the entire coin
89 and sometimes heads
90 and sometimes tails
91 and sometimes neither if such is right
92 I must must learn my passion while I am here
93 I must nurture desire
94 and fatigue fear
95 and deal with ghosts inside my bones

96 I am here to make mistakes
97 I am here to make new ways
98 I am here for you
99 I am here for me
100 Most of all, I am here to be.

© Blake Leitch October 6, 2014