AFTER READING A POEM 'I HAVE NOT LIVED' BY A LATE PROFESSOR OF THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY

There is a brand of man

who loudly claims 'I have not lived'

no matter what path

his life took; from love

to war and fatherhood and loss,

through toil and fame

he might've gone -

yet he claims 'I have not lived'

because life to him

should always be something more

and different. He

is the man waiting for a miracle

when living amongst wonder.

20.03.2019