becoming as coalescing

a coalescing

who we are, albeit in part,
is a coalescing of experience into a whole
of which we are formative, at least partially:
family, school, friends help make us who we are:
choices and possibilities narrow,
that which strives to be bound together,
through the consciousness of decision and self-awareness,
almost makes itself once a path is chosen,

becoming who one is is like writing a poem,
so much there already that further coalesces
as the better decision after decision is made.

by Henry H. Walker
December 26/8, ’11