SO YOU ASK WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN I AND ME, SIMPLY DEAR FRIEND, I IS WHAT I AM, ME IS WHAT YOU SEE. YOU SEE ME STANDING HERE, MY OUTER SHELL EXPOSED, THIS IS ME THAT TALKS AND LISTENS, AND MOVES FROM POSE TO POSE. THE I THAT RESIDES WITHIN MY THOUGHTS, THE I THAT YOU CANNOT SEE, THE I THAT THINKS AND DREAMS AND REASONS, THAT I, THAT IS THE REAL ME.

THE ME THAT REFERS TO MYSELF WITH DETAILS OF AGE, HEIGHT AND ADDRESS, THE I THAT IS REALLY MY PRIVATE BEING, ONLY I CAN REALLY EVER KNOW OR PROCESS. FOR THE I INDIVIDUAL TO EVERY LIVING CREATURE, DISCOVERED OR YET UNKNOWN, IS A MAGICAL AND AMAZING SPIRIT, UNIQUE TO EACH, AND UNDERSTOOD BY ONLY I AND GOD ALONE. WHO IS THIS PERSON IN FRONT OF THE MIRROR, WHO SMILES AND WINCES AND FROWNS, OTHERS WILL SAY THAT’S ME, MAYBE ADMIRING MYSELF IN A NEW GOWN.

BUT I AM SOMEONE DIFFERENT TO THE ME WHO STANDS BEFORE YOU HERE, THIS I CAN’T BE SEEN OR HEARD BY YOU TO SHOUT OR SCREAM OR JEER. THOSE MILLION THOUGHTS, THE CONTEMPLATIONS, THE IDEAS THAT COME AND GO, INCLUDING OUR HEARTACHES, WORRIES, AND PAINS AND SORROWS BRINGING US SO VERY LOW, BUT, OUR I CONTAINS SO VERY, VERY MUCH MORE, HIDDEN AWAY, UNSEEN, UNKNOWN, THIS THINKER, THIS BRAIN, THE TINY SEED OF THIS PLANT THAT’S BEING GROWN.

I IS OUR PERSONALITY, OUR AURA, AND OUR SPARK WITHIN SO DIVINE, ESTABLISHED AND CREATED FROM ON HIGH TO EXIST UNTIL THE VERY END OF TIME. UNTOUCHED UNSEEN BY PASSERS BY, THE I WITHIN OUR HEADS, A UNIVERSE OF THOUGHTS AND SOUNDS, THAT OFTEN PLAGUE US IN OUR BEDS MY FRIEND YOU KNOW ME SO VERY WELL, WE HAVE WORKED AND CRIED AND SUNG, THE ME THAT SHARED SO MUCH WITH YOU UNTIL THE DAY WAS DONE.

BUT THE I THAT IS THE REAL ME, YOU CAN NEVER HOPE TO SEE, IT CONTAINS MY LIFE FORCE, MY STRENGTHS AND FANTASY. THE I THAT LIVES WITHIN MY BRAIN, THAT MAKES ME SO COMPLETE AND WHOLE, IS MY SECRETS, MY PRAYERS, MY ASPIRATIONS, AND DEAR FRIEND THIS I IS MY SOUL.

- DEBORAH THAKE, 2ND April, 2003.