MY LIFE

               In remembering my past, I knew of my

            future, which is now the present.

            Those secret childlike dreams have

            become adult realities.

            In me no one saw what I had seen, no

            one felt what I had touched.

            The road I traveled was not defined,

            but learned along the way.

            My journey was unending.  My passion

            unrelenting.

            "Abandon those thoughts", were the cries

            I heard from dreamers of long ago.

            They knew not of my vision or my determination,

            for they were cursed by the bitterness

            that accompanied their own disappointments.

            I thus blinded myself from such negative

            thoughts, for in my soul everything was

            clear.

            The map of my present, was drawn in the past,

            that outlined my future.   

                                                          Josef Cannon