I was
I am
what to be
is like
a dream
but it will
a difference make
if myself I trust
as I enter
that unknown realm
and strengthened
by faith and courage

what has gone before
will become the pillars
of future understanding:
we are each shaped
and by time moulded

the self then
is the string
strung together
by past threads:
what we'll be
has its origin
in the embryo
that had once existed