Belonging Poem by Brandon Owens
Belonging
So many people searching for a place
They're all searching, looking for faith
Looking for that taste of acceptance
All to authenticate their existence
Yearning to feel apart of something
Not caring that they're held on strings
Like a puppet dancing to a song
Wanting only somewhere to belong
I walk amongst the flock of sheep
Wondering if any are willing to lead
But they're afraid of their reflection
It strips them of their natural senses
The shepherd guides their direction
Depriving liberty and its objectives
For every sheep can choose to be
A son of God, a son of man, can't you see?
That is where you're suppose to belong
I stand alone looking to the individual
Waiting to do what he is told
He wonders the value of his soul
I won't make that kind of appraisal
I chose for myself what I am worth
And what I do with every day since birth
I have learned through rights and wrongs
I have determined the place that I belong
No man can stand perfect and divine
I have my own heart and my own mind
I find my strength in this freedom
The freedom to live and die inside
Where no other man can decide
I am and I can be the only one
For to no one else can I belong
i appreciate the contents, the style of the poem, sequence of thought. salute marks 10 pl read my 'the concept of the soul' shan
A thin line between belonging and being own, property and only a small difference between apart (of something) and an imposter. Think for yourself, Lead yourself. That's what I'm seeing from this poem and I like it.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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5/9/2024 12:04:44 PM # 1.0.0.1119
A line leads me to be written in comment from memory: STRONGEST MAN IS HE WHO CAN STAND ALONE Your last stanza perhaps illustrates this individual strongness. Excellent poem you have written just of the time. So many chords of our psychological problems reflecting through this writing. Along with the sheeps and shephered also present here. Thank you. Better to think oneself as a son of man than that of a lamb. Write more poet.....more you write but of course not with the mechanical urge. Regards, 10+ Apoet Bangla