For long long decades
I've learned and mastered
Both civil and military skills,
Winning neither good name
Nor earning a decent income,
I would confess. Thus,
Steering a course of life
Made of thousands and
Thousands of miles,
I eventually return to
My stories, short poems,
Hot wine, long rounds,
Teapot ceramics, orchards,
And fields to till in harmony
With yearly alternation between
Cold seasons and scorching heat.
Ron