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If I had become a learned lawyer
I might have amounted to something then
But I am just one of the never-were
Outside looking in at the might-have-been

If I had been a famous physician
I might have made a fine fortune that way
Or had I been a better musician
Everyone might have come to hear me play

I ended up a little-known poet
Who lives from day to day and hand to mouth
Nobody much (but at least I know it)

So if my fortunes ever headed south
It would make no difference at all to me
I would just muddle through as I do now
Small change: so how much smaller could it be?

And yet... I like my little life somehow
Under the radar anonymously
As a wanderer and a rambling man
Who slipped through a crack in society

Down at the bottom where it gets muddy
I do what I know as well as I can
But as well as you or anybody

You say you never heard of me? Well... I
Look from the bottom up (but see: bright sky!)

+Steven Curtis Lance



Copyright MMVI

g`day cousin, upwards and onwards, a very fine verse dear steve, a learned lawyer and a famous physician could never live up to your heart and soul... and a never-were is far from the truth, but i see the irony and sardonic humor. well done! keep well and take care, respect & love greg.

Nicely written. I especially like that very optimistic positive last line there. Good stuff!

really a very powerful couplet, breathing the bright flash of the mirror

... you are ...

.. great .. vast .. forceful .. wonderful ..