The thousand year time traveller...

P.H.Rose

The thousand year time traveller...
A tenth century child..

 

I arrived at this a square's wide open space,
Not one friendly face I see around this place.
They look so inquisitively, but do not see,
A man so long aged, stood here before thee.
For a thousand years I've roamed on this earth,
From sticks and stones, to a Star Wars birth.
War after war I've seen all men rage,
No winners at all, just a filled up jail cage.
I have seen beauty in each one of my eyes,
Love and compassion, with no compromise.
Wonders I hear in every baby's first word,
But Evil I've heard as men slaughter the herd.
I'm a tenth century boy, with a twenty first mind,
I have seen this world, from in front and from behind .
Gun powder first used, on my eighteenth birthday,
The first of my deaths, was there where I'd lay.
Something happened as I walked from the river,
Death wasn't the end, but new life would deliver.
To what age I will live, I do not now know,
But alone I will be from first night to last snow...

  • Author: P.H.Rose (Pseudonym) (Offline Offline)
  • Published: January 13th, 2017 06:25
  • Comment from author about the poem: ive cut this poem down as its A lot longer...
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  • WriteBeLight

    Very insightful and excellent work!

  • BRIAN & ANGELA

    Thanks PHR I have been to TWO Hundred Year Birthday Parties and they were actually more fun than some TWENTY FIRSTS ! I want to live to 100 (at least) ~ i'm a third way there ~ but some people are scared of growing old.. Given the option I would like to live to 1000 because ~ as an optimist ~ I believe the BEST is yet to come ~ AMEN ! Thanks for sharing ~ BRIAN

  • Phoenix8523

    Wonderfully written! Will definitely read it again. Thanks for your insight, I truly appreciate it! -- phoenix

    • P.H.Rose

      Thank you Phoenix

    • Tony36

      WOW, amazing write

      • P.H.Rose

        Thank you Tony

        • Tony36

          Welcome

        • Christina8

          I love this poem. What an excellent read!

          • P.H.Rose

            Thank you Chrissy
            For those lovely
            Comments I'm
            Glad you liked it.

          • Augustus

            It is unfathomable to think about the life of someone who would actually witness all of man's inhumanity over a thousand years. Well done.

            • P.H.Rose

              Thank you Augustus



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