Is it too soon to say that I am ready now,
fold me back into the great mother womb
from which I was expelled,
a human time traveller, not consulted,
on planet earth dwell?
*
Have I run the gamut,
passed the required tests?
Experienced to the fullest,
all conditions set?
*
It's true and freely I admit...
I've been so afraid at times
of making just the same mistakes
I've seen on every side.
*
Some were members of a team,
played each game as it came...
I was drawn to other things,
and so they called me names.
*
It made me weep each time I saw
my fellow humans suffer...
Others laughed and jeered again,
how could they be so blind?
*
In many ways I quickly found
I wasn't hard enough...
Men were to be as hard as nails,
and made of better stuff.
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Yet I have learned and know it’s true
for each person I have met,
beneath each tough exterior
there's a human heart to touch.
*
Am I ready now to close the door
on all I think I've been through...?
For now I ask, 'If it's the end,
where will I return to?’
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Dennis Crompton © 2013
(first published www.denniscrompton.wordpress.com 2013)
