I will not forget
I will not forget. In the calmness of mother earth, I had trod a couple decades few. Still in all her vastness, little I found. Plagued yet blessed with other beauties, These horizons I felt I understood. Then my time came, lost! Lost! I felt helpless, Before my earthly doom. I keep this experience dearly, Its the first and I am o'er. Like a bird I now think further, There is more beyond the sun. Thus, I will not forget, That day my time came, When Venus became mortal, A spell the Gods hath cast upon me. Thus happily I chant my note, One with beautiful pain, Alas! Alas! I know, I will never forget.
Edmond A. Arrey