24 July 2012
Growing slowly in my sights. I've been gone for far too long. Can't wait to end this grueling flight!
A world beater I have been, Taking charge and doing well. Taking on the unforeseen; I've brought stories back to tell!
But doubt resides here, truth be told. I wonder how I will be met. Passing time has left me old; absence leaves behind regrets.
Don't change, for me, don't change a thing! Unconsciously, my fingers curl. I close my eyes and kiss my ring And softly pray, don't change the world!
30 years have passed me by, But that is by my clock alone. While streaking in between the stars, On Earth 500 years have flown.
Do snow capped mountains tower still Over fields green with wheat? Do rivers flow with icy chill, or has it all succumbed to heat?
An outpost has been safely built. In that, I proudly had a hand, But now I'm undermined by guilt At bailing out on my home land.
Don't change, for me, don't change at all! Let skies be blue and filled with birds. Let cities climb and trees grow tall. Let me come home! Don't change the world!
Don't Change • Opuss № I