Square Peg

Opening book Poem

Square Peg

A square peg and a round hole it’s only right that the two don’t fit. So why? Do people think it’s me who always needs to be fixed even thou nor so easily mixed?

Too long I’ve tried to mold my way through life anxiously like a

fool with nothing to say. But if by chance my words and thoughts flow

like unto a raging river into the far depths of the sea, or if my words and

thoughts you decided to keep. Then I will know that the sea is not so

distant nor so deep.

Then for the rest, can ponder and dream wherefore life is but a

dream. For they will never understand my kind except for old father time, whose Life has no beginning nor end like the sands upon distant shores. As the stars in the heavens gaze brightly down upon the depths of the sea, time will pass but yet never fade, except for those who have gone before me and those who have joined me on this mysterious crusade.

May the stars forever guide us on this journey that I haven’t yet made? For time will pass us yet never fade like the darkest night or the brightest sun nor the shimmer of the moon, for life is still forever young and those who survive and are among.

Here’s to you who have fought and won, and to those that are still

gazing out upon the battlefields of time and here’s to those who can still

hear so ever faintly the battle cries of the fallen old and young.

For hear me now and forever my beating heart, my whispering words,

upon the wind, hear my thoughts among the rustling of autumn leaves.

See me truly, see me who I really am nor what you want me to be

for I am my own eagle and with hopes of my own that soar among them

in the heavens endless sky.

See me for who I am nor what can you make me be. I have my own dreams that come alive upon a new springing awake for the first time after a cold hard winter.

Listen, quietly listen, see without eyes, and be amazed yet not afraid, feel not with not what you cannot touch with flesh of hand nor bone but with only true, mind and strength.

For I will never again live in fear of fitting in as a square peg into a

“Round Hole.”

By Eric J. Shepherd

Opening question

Some may it finds disturbing, but for the facts and truths that lie behind these pages are true even though some may it find fictional. I question you this, what is the real scope of reality? The reality you understand that exists now or the reality you thought existed or hoped to exist? There are worlds out there today which have not yet been explored or mysteries yet solved into today’s world. Who knows what lies beyond our world and exists in and out of our own world? Just because you have never seen them or it, doesn’t mean it does not exist. Remember a hidden path or entryway can still be discovered or the culture of people you thought never existed or thought existed only in fairy tales can exist. They are just hidden behind the looking glass unseen by you until now. Reality or Time has no meaning or scope nor existence. The question is do you really yourself exist at all or perhaps you’re the one they perceived as the fairy-tale? It all depends on what side of the Mirror you are on.