The Raggedy Man Poem by Richard D Remler

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He saw the place where time began...
This very ordinary man.
It was a whisper really, barely heard,
And yet he heard every word.

He's witnessed stars born in a flame,
And spied dead worlds just the same.
He's an Observer from a yesteryear
Who sails the Ultimate Frontier

Through a microcosm old and new,
In something ancient, something blue...
Something grand, and wise, and free,
To navigate the starry sea.

He's walked the timeless, barren shore,
Before Fate beckoned him to war.
It was another time, another face,
And in a very different place.

We know so little of his war,
Of his Gallifrey and Trenzalore,
And how, not so very long ago
He reversed the polarity of the neutron flow.

He's feared, of course. And loved, indeed.
We've seen him laugh, and weep, and bleed.
A primordial ooze runs through his veins.
And yet, he never once complains.

He is a maverick, of course.
Unconventional by choice.
From one unearthly child, until the journey's end
He is fortune's fared and cryptic friend.