you will always be you
you can not be less than you
but you can be more than you
if you choose
your actions will haunt you
your inactions will echo in
the wind tunnel of your memory
you can change but
you will be you
you can act like someone else
you can sound like someone else
you can think like someone else
but it is you 
who are not someone else
it is likely that you will
become different as to night and day
but the shadow of self remains
your soul companion
so it is like the tree
an image in the flower
a hope in the fruit
a possibility in the seed
a glimmer in the shoot
a miracle as a sapling
a beauty as a tree
a memory in the fireplace
a reality in the ash
but it is only a state of being
and you are all transitions 
of reality and unreality
unique in the universe
alone with yourself
together in our journey