I is the shortest word in the English language.
A word, in this instance being a linguistic item
That is whole with a full stop appended.
There is no other, although you may feel free
To correct me.
Multitudinous I is.
Before brought to a stop,
Though I is merely me, in voice and face,
I is you, too,
Should you wish to speak, or shape your features just so.
Multitudes of I, then, every one of us,
And in each, that multitudinousness
Which is such a long word, and clumsy,
I all at once, in an instant,
And unending, until, at last,
That full stop.
When I becomes he, she, they,
The voice stopped, the face stilled.
The I that was.
No he, she or they can ever fully be
What I was.
None of us.