Written Somewhere (Mini Biography)

My friends are strangers My family is the world At one time, I sought fame Everyone to know my name Praise for what I did But as the years came around No fame there was to be found So I turned my back on it all Feeling crushed and insignificantly small Years folded into one another And soon became a score Still I had no wish to return To find the fame that I so yearned But fate had a hand for me to play It said you still had something more to say An old school friend from a different time Was sent one day when I was down To reconnect and turn my life around At first it did not dawn on me That our meeting was meant to be And my life was to change so dramatically We talked through emails About the lives, we had both lead Suzanne said she had a friend and told me her name That I should read her poems online That friend, Melvina Germain, would also become a friend of mine And set me on a return road of an earlier time I joined the site where her poems were And in a few short months, I was overwhelmed I had something I had always dreamed for I had a family of the world The fame I so dearly sought to find Where friends came along and read the work of mine It made my heart pump faster and put zest into my life again I would never want for anything I had all the friends and fame I ever wanted and more 16 April 2007