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Wanderer
(Entry in DUP contest)
A continuation of the past
To relive and suffer yet again
Years of torment
Lifetimes of mistakes
Yet remembering nothing
Of my accomplishments
To use in my next journey
Through this life,
As a different human being
Male, Female
Poor, Rich
Sane, Insane
No cheat notes
To help me along
To choose the correct answers
The correct paths
That will lead me to
The glory land and
Finally to a place of rest
From all this wandering and pain
A place
To call home
(C) 2014 XMAR82 all Rights Reserved
A continuation of the past
To relive and suffer yet again
Years of torment
Lifetimes of mistakes
Yet remembering nothing
Of my accomplishments
To use in my next journey
Through this life,
As a different human being
Male, Female
Poor, Rich
Sane, Insane
No cheat notes
To help me along
To choose the correct answers
The correct paths
That will lead me to
The glory land and
Finally to a place of rest
From all this wandering and pain
A place
To call home
(C) 2014 XMAR82 all Rights Reserved
Published 7th Apr 2014
| Edited 3rd Feb 2017
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7th Apr 2014 1:36pm
8th Apr 2014 10:50pm
Anonymous
7th Apr 2014 4:06pm
What happened so that you cannot use knowledge of past mistakes? Is your mind/memory deteriorating?
Or is this just a spoken fear of what you may struggle through in the future?
I would ask only for some added insight as to why you feel yourself a wanderer or why you feel hopelessly lost/ misguided. That is my only honest critique suggestion. This struggle is felt by many (including myself), but it leaves me wondering about the personal experiences leading to this feeling.
Or is this just a spoken fear of what you may struggle through in the future?
I would ask only for some added insight as to why you feel yourself a wanderer or why you feel hopelessly lost/ misguided. That is my only honest critique suggestion. This struggle is felt by many (including myself), but it leaves me wondering about the personal experiences leading to this feeling.
8th Apr 2014 10:50pm
Square peg in a round world! I can't remember the mistakes of my past lives to help me along in this one to become successful. Reincarnation! Thanks for the critique.
Anonymous
9th Apr 2014 1:19am
I see; I thought you might have been referring to reincarnation. I interpreted this also as description of what some Alzheimer patients suffer. (My own experiences with family members who have had it.) Hence the questions.
Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for sharing.
9th Apr 2014 10:36pm
I understand since my mother is also suffering from that at this time. It's an ugly disease! Robs people of the thing that they could hold on to no matter what, "Memories." Thanks for asking.
17th Apr 2014 2:59pm
I knew this was about reincarnation. Sad and troubling process but I think it will be all worth it in the end when we no longer have to wander around searching for that place to call home. Exceptional write! This deserves to go in my reading list :)
23rd Apr 2014 9:12pm
23rd Apr 2014 9:04pm
It is the search we're bound to, a goal to persue. What good would it be to know the answers before the questions arise? Life would be making less sense (without being senseless). And if you could take on past experience from former lifes to your present one .. I doubt we'd have learned a thing. Mankind never does. Remembers me of Jean-Paul Sartre's Les jeux sont faits ...
I like your poem very much since it's thought provoking.
I like your poem very much since it's thought provoking.
23rd Apr 2014 9:14pm
Not the answers but a little foresight wouldn't be such a bad thing to help avoid some of the major mistakes we all make and regret making in our old age. Glad you enjoyed it.
