A Different Life: Poem

A Different Life

I.

There was another life

That I might have had

When I was young.

But now, I am having this one.

This time, it is all about me –

My thoughts, my feelings, and emotions.

I am trying my best –

I live and breathe.

I am breathing life back into me.

There is not any fee

To be free.

Some people call it strength,

Another group looks through the lens –

Perhaps this loud mosquito is something up

With things which I will not put.

II.

There was another life

That I might have had.

Now, I must start over –

New resolutions and goals

Are different from before.

I am challenging my brain

To a battle of wits,

Both mental sharpness

and inventiveness.

Now, please move out of my way –

Your big head blocks my sunshine,

I am on my way to creating keen intelligence.

Tomshinsky@2026