Ghazal

When I'm with you, I am who I am.
You see through the nonsense and grasp who I am.


The essence of Me is thick. It's hanging in the air:
I'm breathing in and breathing out suspicions of who and what I am.


Suggestions of what to be and where to go accumulate above me.
The rain of possibilities falls on all that I already am.

My whole life is reflected in your eyes. You peel away the
falseness with your bare hands. You effortlessly uncover who I truly am.

Classifications - of future, past, and present - are obsolete with you here.
Together we explore, and I am not afraid of what I am.

You say my name: 'Courtney' - it is so beautiful in your voice!
I wanted to be what you made me, but you have chosen to love me as I am.


















I'm taking a poetry class this semester and we are writing ghazals. I really love them! Here are the rules:
>The verses are written in couplets.
>The refrain, a repeated word, ends every couplet and ends the first and second lines in the first couplet [in this poem, the refrain is the word am]
>The couplets must make sense alone and end with a period. They don't have to be related.
>There must be at least 5 couplets.
>The lines are long - not one or two words like some of my work
>The last couplet must include the poet's own name.