What if I had begun my destiny
\nas someone else?
\nNever saw the gray eminence
\nof Sandusky bay?
\nHeard my brother go off to school.
\nListened to my father
\nplay the guitar,
\nand make bows and arrows.
\nLook up at the great trains
\npassing the house.
\nHear my mother wail in the night
\nfor dead children.<\/p>\n
Would fate have been kinder,
\nif the wounds had not run so deep?
\nIf war and the dead
\nhad not intervened?
\nIf school had not been so hard,
\nand the terror of my dreams
\nso dark?
\nPerhaps we live only once in eternity.
\nWould we dare change what happened?<\/p>\n
There is nothing random in life,
\nand having happened,
\nI still have a choice.
\nTo tell children how much they are loved,
\nuntil my voice is hoarse.
\nTo join them
\nat the level of their trees and mountains.
\nTo cause no regrets
\nto tear them from their world.
\nLife is a gift to the infinitely precious,
\nwherever it leads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
What if I had begun my destiny as someone else? Never saw the gray eminence of Sandusky bay? Heard my brother go off to school.…<\/p>\n