WHERE I ONCE WAS SOMEWHERE ELSE <br /> <br />Where I once was somewhere else- <br />I cannot now know where I am- <br />Where I am now is not where I would be <br />But have I ever really been where I would be? <br />Perhaps for those first married years <br />I was closer- <br />But I have never wholly been <br />Where I should be- <br />And now it appears <br />I never will be- <br />More and more it may well be <br />I will be leaving this world <br />As if I never was wholeheartedly a part of it.<br /><br />Shalom Freedman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/where-i-once-was-somewhere-else/