IF

If my mother had not have been her,
I would not have been me.

If my father had not been him,
I would not have been me.

If my mother and father had not been them,
I would not be.

I would not be in this place,
in this chair,
tapping this keyboard,
creating these words,
thinking these thoughts,
living this life.

I would be someone else
or, perhaps, I would not have been born.

I would not have been me.