What's Your Identity?

I don't need motivation, I need an identity,

If I am a poet, I'll write daily, sharing my suffering and serenity.

I'll make this a priority, pick paper, pen, keyboard, 

I'll share my wounds with the world, not suppress with silence and hoard.

   

I don't need habits, I need an identity,

If I am a marathoner, I'll daily run, maul the city. 

I won't need artificial tricks, putting my running shoes besides my bed, 

I'll be eagerly waiting for the dawn, for a chance to trot and tread. 

 

I don't need goals, I need an identity,

If I am a reader, I'll daily absorb pages- five or fifty.

I won't need challenges, to track the books I read in a year,  

I'll finish what nourishes me, and discard others, that much is clear. 

I don't need endorsements, I have a firm identity,

I'm a nationalist and pro defense, if you're a peacenik, that's a pity.