Musings of a Deep Thinker: Free-Verse, Rants, and Poetic Rants.

Meaning of Life So Far

As a child

I heard the words around me.

Yet I did not understand.

Recklessly they were used around me

And I did not understand.

Nor did I understand

Their significance.

Or did I truly understand

What they were

And what they meant.

But there was a voice

An inkling

A promise

That told me

Those words would mean

The purpose of prevention

In my adolescence

As I knew it.

It was all around me as a child.

And now I understand why.

It was a sign.

A vision.

A prophecy.

That I did not understand at the time.

A focus.

A meaning.

A truth.

that would determine the duty

Of my teenage years.

And in turn

This would shape me

To fulfill my true duty

In adulthood.