Su Ben Poet Free verse

Does It Matter Where I Come From

What difference does it make where I come from
because I am not an extraordinary but one who exists 
while putting his feet on the earth. And, since, I am an ordinary man, 
I must someday return to earth as dust.

If, therefore, the place where I sojourned was spring,
I should live and go as a flower blossom.
If it was summer, as an unquenchable glaring sun.
If it was autumn, carried by the wind as a fallen leaf.
If it was winter, covered by a blanket of white snow.

I don’t know, however,
why I am walking up and down on this path
until this very moment, though I should have gone 
long ago as a flower, sun, a leaf, or of a snowflake,
for I have lived my life long enough on this earth 
as a lonely wandering soul.

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