Wondering/Wandering
People change little from continent to continent-
The odd custom here and there, different food-
But, all love and hate, wonder about life,
And fear what they don't understand.
They all die and don't want to,
Or can't die and do want to,
But they all have regrets and dreams.
Some find hopelessness easier
And live with it longer, or much shorter
As fortune and karma will have it.
In the end few of our names are known
Longer than a generation or two
Lacking great works of good or evil
To make other generations wonder as well.
Then we all go home, or lie forgotten in foreign sod
Having wandered and wondered our last.
People change little from continent to continent-
The odd custom here and there, different food-
But, all love and hate, wonder about life,
And fear what they don't understand.
They all die and don't want to,
Or can't die and do want to,
But they all have regrets and dreams.
Some find hopelessness easier
And live with it longer, or much shorter
As fortune and karma will have it.
In the end few of our names are known
Longer than a generation or two
Lacking great works of good or evil
To make other generations wonder as well.
Then we all go home, or lie forgotten in foreign sod
Having wandered and wondered our last.