My friends are strangers
My family is the world
At one time, I sought fame
Everyone to know my name
Praise for what I did
But as the years came around
No fame there was to be found
So I turned my back on it all
Feeling crushed and insignificantly small
Years folded into one another
And soon became a score
Still I had no wish to return
To find the fame that I so yearned
But fate had a hand for me to play
It said you still had something more to say
An old school friend from a different time
Was sent one day when I was down
To reconnect and turn my life around
At first it did not dawn on me
That our meeting was meant to be
And my life was to change so dramatically
We talked through emails
About the lives, we had both lead
Suzanne said she had a friend and told me her name
That I should read her poems online
That friend, Melvina Germain, would also become a friend of mine
And set me on a return road of an earlier time
I joined the site where her poems were
And in a few short months, I was overwhelmed
I had something I had always dreamed for
I had a family of the world
The fame I so dearly sought to find
Where friends came along and read the work of mine
It made my heart pump faster and put zest into my life again
I would never want for anything
I had all the friends and fame
I ever wanted and more
16 April 2007
What a big loving and caring family it is here my friend... So many new friend across this beautiful world... Well said David.. want to thank you for the friendship you have shown me and so many others.. Thank you from us all..
And you do make beautiful music David.....I'm glad I came to this site also.
I gave you a ten because you write from the heart and because of your most brillant of poems which is an honest confession of yourslef! I love the way you write! Best regards, my Friend, Theo P.S.Fame isn't all it is cracked up To be. I have a cousin who Wishes that she didn't have any!
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
Well said David, I second your feelings. Fame is uinimportant it is the writing that gives us all such happiness. The past year I also feel I have discovered the world again, to be able to say nice things to people and receive them in return-strokes for life my friend. Keep writing Bob