WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BECOME?
When did it ever end?
For they never stopped asking.
First was Mama
Then my teacher, and .....You
Charlie what do you want to be
When you grow up?
Me; a doctor...no
An engineer.
Law is great....but an astronaut should do..
And Mom to the neighbors;
My son is gonna be a doctor!!
But pressure and time,
And a desire to just break free and breathe..
Let me live one day at a time..,
Even if I be a poet.
For when do we really become?
When life is but
A fleeting moment...
And we are forever evolving
Through times and seasons and conditions;
Not totally in our control..
And who asked again,
Charlie what do you want to become
when you grow up?
When that, is not so bright a question
To the possibilities of
this wondering mind.
© Manuel Ovie Oburhie
For they never stopped asking.
First was Mama
Then my teacher, and .....You
Charlie what do you want to be
When you grow up?
Me; a doctor...no
An engineer.
Law is great....but an astronaut should do..
And Mom to the neighbors;
My son is gonna be a doctor!!
But pressure and time,
And a desire to just break free and breathe..
Let me live one day at a time..,
Even if I be a poet.
For when do we really become?
When life is but
A fleeting moment...
And we are forever evolving
Through times and seasons and conditions;
Not totally in our control..
And who asked again,
Charlie what do you want to become
when you grow up?
When that, is not so bright a question
To the possibilities of
this wondering mind.
© Manuel Ovie Oburhie