What AM I?

Prompt/sample: 9.21.14

Prompt: What are you? Decribe yourself as something else; a thing.
Title will be: What Am I"
The last line states what you are. Example: I am a table.

Words to use: identity, mar, gasp, sheet.
Words NOT to use: "I" , "am" EXCEPT for last line line and Title, my, their,
NOT including title and last line:EXACTLY 60 words. In other words (to forestall questions): Title and last line word count combined will be 7 words. Entire poem, including title will be 67 words.

What AM I?


A few scribbles
scratched upon a sheet,
once pristine. Now marred
or mated. Embedded
P's and Q's: yet
but a few lines;
mere runes, marks,
laying claim to words.

Words which
amend, dance, inch
vocab towards life:
scratching, gasping, seeking
existence; sentence into being.
Cut me: bleeding ink.
flows through quill staining
the sheet with my identity.

I am a poem.