Why I's Born

Very inspired I was and in love with Mother Earth
When last I faced that biggest step, mortal death.
But knowing the Way, and having been saved,
I had thought for many decades
upon who and what I would become.

I knew I'd fall back in many ways,
My history would not transcend my grave.
And childhood, why so many are born,
For me, I knew, would be hell to pay.
Ignorance is like a shackle to humanity.

Yes, it was a story of pain.
It was of innocence and aroma blown away,
Sickness, sorrow, misunderstanding, decay,
And the eros and the egos in a constant fray.
Our species is basically wired that way.

Then of lust,
then of greed,
I tried gluttony, I smoked weed.
I started it over and tried them all again,
Addiction is like that my friend.

Then one day, at the height of my betrayal,
I remembered what my plan had been,
just as sure as the sun is fire.
I got as high as a kite to suddenly remember
why I'd put myself through this forsaken trial.

But then my bad habits bekoned in the wing
and it took seven more years just to get free.

Now I stand here, so many years younger than I was,
I'm healthy, and miraculously, everything I've been through
has equiped me to do exactly what it was
I came here to get done.