Tadpole

I evaluated myself
I analyzed my biology
Traced behavior
with half a brain
and that half
with the other half.

The process
was a comfort...
I was comforted though
confronted with failings
well, first, such anger ...
then fatigue
... a real cry baby;

Not a man; not a fool;
just weakling
... a tadpole, eeling
in a pond pool.

Tackling changes
and obstacle full
to and fro
with the whole school

Where leads
a life in the pond
but to a stranger life
upon the land?


Patrick Darnell (2000)