I Once Was Poem by Murphy Payne

I once was now no more
In the form you liked as you held me close
With precious moments so well defined
Which we thought would last tomorrow

And they really do if you would only undo
What you haven’t learned
But someday shall
On the playground of bliss

For when it happens again we shall be sojourn
And continue our journey
Of finding our garden that was made for us
In the beginning

We had to leave
We wanted to leave
In order to discover the gifts we received
So divinely rich we didn’t know we had

For wondering and existing,
Not living but learning
Changing and seeing from the end to the beginning
That put us back home in our garden remiss

Because you were chosen to tell the stories
To the unborn forms
About life in the skin like bark on trees
We lose in the end

The Adams’ and Eves’, Cains’ and Abels’ we are
The Marys’ and Jesus’ we are not
While wondering through these times with
Unseen errors that we often conceive in our hearts