I am Not Who I Was

I have walked through many lives,

And I am not who I was,

I'm always searching and grateful to have survived.

I have walked through many lives,

Some principles of being abides.

Past struggles are what was,

I have walked through many lives,

And I am not who I was.

Inspired by the first lines of The Layers by Stanley Kunitz down below

I have walked through many lives,

Some of them my own,

And I am not who I was,

Though some principle of being abides,

From which I struggle not to stray.