I hand myself these challenges <br />and if I win <br />I preen; <br /> <br />I hand myself these challenges <br />and if I lose <br />knowledge and experience I guess I gain; <br /> <br />I hand myself still greater challenges <br />and hope they don't <br />ending up educating me to death. <br /> <br />Surviving then <br />the worst of these, <br />if lucky, <br />I could be crippled for life <br />but end up very very wise. <br /> <br />You know actually <br />I'd rather skip <br />the educated, crippled and possibly dead part <br />and perhaps too <br />skip the my birth itself <br />and go straight to heaven in one piece <br />one day and still healthy, <br /> <br />where God and and I would discuss <br />the Joys and the Dreads of Earthly Life <br />in the presence of the angels <br />and delightful cherubic lads. <br /> <br />Thereby I would gain immortality <br />and never ever <br />have to get dead. <br /> <br />Humm.. <br />All in all <br />I think <br />this idea is best in many ways. <br /> <br />But if you are reading this <br />you are already alive <br />the both of us having made our first mistake; <br /> <br />that of having been born <br />and probably depending on age <br />very very very wise. <br /> <br />Womb Returns and Pilgrimages <br />are clearly out of the question <br />and therefore I will have to <br />stop complaining <br />and make the best <br />of life here on earth; <br />weary simile on my face <br />and reconciled <br />to the wise joys <br />of this Earthly <br />Grand In-Between.<br /><br />Lonnie Hicks<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/misanthrope/
