Sureia

Believe in yourself and you can achieve anything, they say. I say; Look at yourself, and ask if what you've achieved was worth the belief.

I've been and gone, tested and tasted all manner of pleasure and deemed myself content,unworried, unphased by the shifting facies of the mind. So why does my heart smile with you? And why do I strain to hear your voice in a quiet place?

On a day as bright and clear as glass, A fool of a lad sat on the grass About to become a man at last But he was too fool-hardy. As he rose he saw the sea, And said; “That is where I want to be, I was born to spend my life at sea, Out among the hardy.” “Let him be,” they said, “he’s blind Let him go and seek his kind The gods for him will fair provide He is that foolhardy.” They that saw could not but laugh, At the thought of a life before the mast They knew the time for dreams had passed But he was too foolhardy. His father was himself beside, As were his mother and his bride, His lunacy they all d