• I have my up and downs.
    My smiles. My frowns.

    I have hope, I have despair.
    I am cruel, yet I am fair.

    I am different, but the same.
    I accuse, and I'm to blame.

    I tell the truth and I lie.
    I am dead, but I'm alive.

    Yes I can, and I cannot.
    I've been unleashed, I've been caught.

    I take not the smallest crumb.
    Yet to greed, I have succumb.

    I'm like you, but I am me.
    I am chained and I am free.

    My book is open, sometimes closed.
    I am a thorn, I am a rose.

    I can walk and I can run.
    I have lost and I have won.

    I remember. I forget.
    I am sweet and I'm a threat.

    I can trust and I suspect.
    I can cure and I infect.

    I am big, yet I am small.
    I can fly, sometimes I fall.

    I'm ordinary, yet unique.
    I am strong, but I am weak.

    I do leave, but I return.
    I can heal, but I burn.

    I am clean, yet covered in grime.
    Look at me, I'm in my prime.