I am from a land of ancient tall trees
where the grass is green
and the sea of blue
washes the sand clean

I am from a man
delivered of a woman
who gave nothing but love
and for whom I had none

I am from a childhood of dreams
and visions of friends
denied as figments
of an overactive imagination

I am from the love once found
but lost in dying
cast upon the shadow world
forlorn of ever finding it again

I am from many journeys
in the killing fields and beyond
of a crazy world
where politicians were never wrong

I am from the darkness
of a mind gone wrong
in forgetting
to remember yesterday

Ultimately I am lost from the love
that could sustain me
in the finality of human frailty
and penultimate fall from grace