Square Peg

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, who’s 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 olds 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 cold hard winter.

Listen, quietly listen, see without eyes and be amazed yet not afraid, feel not with not what you can not 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 Shepherd

1997

Author's Note

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Reviews

[Coyote Poetry]

I liked this chapter. Old ways thoughts and I liked the logic of the words. We are forced into places we do not want to be. Hard to walk the lonely path. Thank you Shep for sharing the amazing chapter.
Coyote

[Shep]

it was hard to write it at first it was my very first poem and the opening my book Whats Behind The Looking Glass series.

[Coyote Poetry]

A very good use of words. You did well.

[roarke]

very psalm-like. A conscious conversation with the universe perhaps. Only caution is to watch word repetition. Otherwise nice work.

[Shep]

thanks i used to open my book Whats Behind The Look Glass which is now published. would be intrested reading my book Starlight.

[roarke]

I don't have the concentration anymore to read books Shep, probably why I only write short stories. I enjoyed how your told your bio on here.

[Kenneth The Poet]

Powerful, Eric. As the song goes, powerful stuff.

[EMF]

Great imagry and theme. Wonderful wordplay and form. A very thought provoking piece. I loved it.

[SoulCrusader (Yas)]

Very thoughtfully wrote is this...so much sense and wisdom here, excellent work :)

[joshua deathdealer]

I like this. Great imagery and well written. "see without eyes" nice..xx