My friends are strangers <br />My family is the world <br />At one time, I sought fame <br />Everyone to know my name <br />Praise for what I did <br />But as the years came around <br />No fame there was to be found <br />So I turned my back on it all <br />Feeling crushed and insignificantly small <br /> <br />Years folded into one another <br />And soon became a score <br />Still I had no wish to return <br />To find the fame that I so yearned <br />But fate had a hand for me to play <br />It said you still had something more to say <br />An old school friend from a different time <br />Was sent one day when I was down <br />To reconnect and turn my life around <br /> <br />At first it did not dawn on me <br />That our meeting was meant to be <br />And my life was to change so dramatically <br />We talked through emails <br />About the lives, we had both lead <br />Suzanne said she had a friend and told me her name <br />That I should read her poems online <br />That friend, Melvina Germain, would also become a friend of mine <br />And set me on a return road of an earlier time <br /> <br />I joined the site where her poems were <br />And in a few short months, I was overwhelmed <br />I had something I had always dreamed for <br />I had a family of the world <br />The fame I so dearly sought to find <br />Where friends came along and read the work of mine <br />It made my heart pump faster and put zest into my life again <br />I would never want for anything <br />I had all the friends and fame <br />I ever wanted and more <br /> <br /> <br />16 April 2007<br /><br />David Harris<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/written-somewhere-mini-biography/
