Te_mpt_ed

I have been tempted by the world and its greed for gold

I have risen and fallen after leaving the fold

I abandoned innocence of simple youth

Searching for more than the element of truth

I hid from my culture embarrassed and shy

Not one with this world with a past to deny

I reached for acceptance from those that surround

Struggling to seize what I thought they had found

I gave my soul to their world and society

Taking and judging with impugn propriety

And now in my aging as I see through the haze

Of a blind and shallow youth that went through a faze

I reach once more for the child like ways

As the spirit of old assembles His strays

Into the fold of creation and Mother Earth

Bring me back to the innocence of birth

I am Te_mpt_ed