Tabla Rasa Poem by Gabrielle Ciarann Roniyah Baer

How could I forget him?
The one who changed everything,
The one who turned my life around,
The one who showed me who I am,
and who I can be?

How could I not know him?
the friend from my childhood days,
the school mate from Academy,
the kid with 'no father',
except the Father of the Gods!
the boy who wanted nothing,
but a friend to watch his back?

Why did I ask,
How could I want,
What made me wish
To forget the best,
To lose the happiest,
To give up the luckiest,
To shake off the proudest times of my life?

And why should I be surprised,
that he came looking,
that he never gave me up for lost,
that he fought with every word and look,
that he wouldn't take my 'no',
that he knew me so well
better now and always, then I know myself!


(written in August,2003)