Brilliant Poem

 



 
     I do not want to live my life, like all,
     Living like squirrels in a hamster wheel,
     Walking around in circles, being slaves,
     Afraid of storm and of the ocean waves.

     I want to live uplifted like an eagle;
     I want to live conceited like a Creole;
     Smashing, threatening barriers, sliding by
     Between the two "forbidden"s intertwined.

     I want to live, a wise and brilliant man
     Of all his peers a century ahead
     And yet in other measures, to exist
     A fifty years behind my time at least.

     I want to live, as it behooves to live
     To him who knows to conjure and conceive
     New notes from ancient ones and from the past -
     I want to live the way life lives, at last! 
 
 
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