Alien

as a child it seemed to me
here on earth I did not belong to be
different somehow I surely was
from other children all about me

surely somehow a spaceship had
brought me here and abandoned me
then flew away to somewhere else
to the place that I ought to be

and as I grew into teenage years
somehow the sea did call to me
to find a boat and sail away
and spend my life upon the sea

travel the trades to islands far
trading goods with the peoples there
going where I freely could
and find the place where I should be

now I am in elder years
and in the future alone I’ll be
and the open road does call to me
to travel to where I should be

yet somehow I still do not know
just where it is I long to be
and if the place I’ll ever find
the perfect place where I should be

for in this life I’ve always felt
surely somewhere else I ought to be
and longed somehow to travel where
what is the place where I should be