I have not been forced to change
For the last fifteen years or so I have been indulged
First at college, then with family, also in my workplace
If there has been change, and I think there has
Then the force for change has come from within
Or from what I have extracted from my environment
Yet I don’t recall setting out to change
Rather to learn, to experience, to feel, to think
And what of all that inexplicable labour
What rewards are in my mind, my body, my spirit, my soul
Could I now write about how good it feels to write
Could I now think about how good it feels to think
Could I now say with any certainty
That this journey was the pathway to have taken
