Native To His Land

We shall not cease from exploration And at the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. [--T.S. Elliot] Back to a place and time when I was young In a simple world so far away All the memories coming back to me Made me what I am The land I knew for so very long I had to leave but never let go Time has passed again here I am Where the story began Life had taken this world away from me Through wiser eyes I see Home to my new native land But so foreign to me Where I roam, where I cry Where I sleep, where I will lie Where I dream, where I survive Where I believe, where I'm alive This land- my native land, once upon a dream I saw your towers standing so tall This land- my native land, ruined remains Fallen before me, lying at my feet Full circle, here I stand Once a boy, now a man I returned to a new native land Now I can move on This land- my native land, once upon a dream I saw your towers standing so tall This land- my native land, and today I know My time has come to let go