I am changed

I have moved a thousand miles

Across the sea

And every step

Has transformed me

 

I will move once more

Twice more

Five thousand times more

 

I will change 

And be changed

By revolutions, and powerful people

By sunsets, and short silences

 

Disasters may move me

These earthquakes might shatter my home

A tornado could pluck me from the earth

And carry me far far away

 

I might awaken

In a stranger's world

Full of strange people

Speaking strange languages

 

And maybe it will change me

Maybe I'll become a stranger myself

Speaking strange languages

And doing strange things

 

But no matter where I go

Or who I become

I'd best remember

That I can not be created

 

I have always been, and will always be

Just atoms, of molecules, of cells, of me

And no matter what happens

I will never be more or less than those cells

 

No matter what I become

You cannot take credit

And I will not give blame 

Because the me that I am 

Holds all it is and all it ever will be

 

And no matter what happens,

I cannot be destroyed

My matter will move

And melt away 

But no matter how many bullets you fire

I refuse

No. 

I am unable 

To be destroyed 

 

I can be transformed and transferred

Until I'm bloody and buried

Until I'm completely unrecognizable

Until my friends and family forget about me

Until they're asked to identify

But say "no, that child's a stranger to me"

 

I can be transformed and transferred

But never, no matter how hard the world tries

Can it ever hope 

To destroy me