Today I feel like a ship wrecked at sea. <br />Today I stand fully ignorant in my knowledge. <br />I stand bleakly as I watch life pass me by. <br />Today I have become an infant. <br />Today I am an orphan. <br />I stand isolate. <br />I stand as the sole believer of my philosophies. <br />Today my eyes open wide, <br />Wide at the realization that what I thought I knew <br />I know not. <br />Today I am an orphan. <br />Parentless, friendless, <br />An alien, <br />A loner for alone I am. <br /> <br />Today I am the town’s leper. <br />The blind man at the street corner <br />Singing my sorrowful tune, <br />Begging for a penny, <br />Begging for someone to love me. <br /> <br />Today I am an orphan. <br /> <br />Today I have no ability to write verse, <br />For orphaned and ignorant I stand <br />As I watch all that I thought I knew <br />All my philosophies… <br />Being wrecked at sea…<br /><br />Irene Umulisa<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/betrayed-71/
