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  >> Static Item >> Poetry >> Experience >> ID #1154107  |   Show DetailsPrinter Friendly Page Tell A Friend
Plain as Jane
traditional poem about who I am and who I might have been
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                                Whenever there I chance to see
                                Sails and gales,
                                In mystery,
                                I wonder where I might have been
                                If I had blown before the wind.

                                Perhaps a beggar on the street
                                Worn and torn
                                In stocking feet,
                                Wine imbibed, waiting to die
                                And cursing all that passes by.

                                Perhaps a president or king,
                                Bestowed with gold
                                And high esteem,
                                Adulation, fame, success
                                And fortune more than popes
                                        could bless.

                                Fair winds have borne me
                                        love's caress
                                Hand in hand
                                With happiness,
                                Compassion, trust, fidelity,
                                No greater fortune could I see.

                                And what I am is what I'll be,
                                Plain as Jane
                                In reality.
                                Though precious youth is robbed
                                        by time,
                                The child inside remains behind.

                                                                  rlkilgore

                             
                               
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