Poem - "Who am I?" by Carl Sandburg

"Who am I?" 
by Carl Sandburg


My head knocks against the stars.


My feet are on the hilltops.

My finger-tips are in the valleys and shores of

universal life.

Down in the sounding foam of primal things I

reach my hands and play with pebbles of

destiny.

I have been to hell and back many times.

I know all about heaven, for I have talked with God.

I dabble in the blood and guts of the terrible.

I know the passionate seizure of beauty

And the marvelous rebellion of man at all signs

reading "Keep Off."



My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive

in the universe.