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The man I want to be, the one hiding behind the tree.
It's time to discover, is it the real or the art lover?
Miles away rings a familiar tune,
like the bottle filled with water from various spoons.
Do you envy or you pity?
Hope I sink in or am I guilty?
Knows the time and the trees,
am I real or the leaves.
Like the apple, I fall down.
Mean less, yet I sing the song.
I see him for now, killing the bug somehow.
No hopes will die in vain, for he will be a blend.
The Man I Want To Be, No more hiding behind the tree.
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- KD.
Meaning :
In this poem I am trying to figure out who I want to be in the future. The poem is pretty simple, But there are few terms that translate to a peace of my life. Here are few of them :
The line, "It's time to discover, Is it the real or the art lover" translates to - It's time for me to find out if I want to do something relating science or art.
Then the line "Miles away rings a familiar tune, Like the bottle filled with water from various spoons " translates to - the distant future holds a story that is comforting, a story about a person I have always thought to become. This person is a polymath, Someone who is into more than one fields, For example - Leonardo Da Vinci.
Then the line, "Do you envy or you pity" is a direct question to my future self. I am asking him if he envies the present me or if he is disappointed with what I am right now.
In the line,"Hope I sink in or am I guilty" I am hoping that I will be what I want to be but what if I commit the crime of failing to become what I want to become.
Then in the line,"Knows the time and the trees" I am literally imagining myself walking done the lonely path in a forest, like in the picture above. The entire path being my life, and what I will be in the future is known only by the future time and the trees that will surround me at that point of time in the future.
Then,"Am I real or the leaves" simply means, Am I going to be a science guy or a creative art guy.
In the line,"Like the Apple, I fall down" the Apple here relates to the apple that fell on Newton's head which eventually made him discover gravity. The apple served as the source of a great revolution or change in science, and just like that apple I am hoping to serve as the source of a great revolution for the humanity in the future.
Then in the end the line, "No hopes will die in vain, for he will be a blend. The man I want to be, No more hiding behind the tree" shows that I am confident that my hopes are not going to die and that I will become what I want to become, that is a blend of everything, science and art together. A polymath.
Thank you for reading.
KD.
