CHILD'S PLAY: Some thoughts about identity change

	As a child I played with soldiers
	then later dallied in romance.

	As an adult I played with power
	and later with finance.

	Then one day
	I became part of a small funeral game
	in which people dressed themselves
	in black & gray

	& near the place where my ashes lay
	in fields of auburn grass
	birds sang in a gentle breeze
	as little ones
	who knew nothing at all about "me"
	joyfully played & danced.


Ron:   Is human life merely like a child's play and our existence any different from a mayfly's brief day?

Linda: (chuckling). Well, it certainly seems that way.

Lis:   (half in jest) But isn't there any grand epiphany? Is human life but a brief buffet, 
       whose food is destined to swiftly decay?

Linda: (baffled) Are you looking to me for answers?

Lis:    Well, I'm asking for an opinion.


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from _Last Poems: Lost Poems_ by T Newfields
SUMMARY: Some thoughts about how identity changes at various life stages.
KEYWORDS: identity transformations, human life phases, life cycles, changing desires, human aging

Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955 - )
Begun: 1993 in Shizuoka, Japan ✠ Finished: 2018 in Yokohama (Japan)
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} 

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DEUTSCH:  https://www.tnewfields.info/de/kinder.htm
ESPAÑOL:  https://www.tnewfields.info/es/cosa.htm
FRANÇAIS: https://www.tnewfields.info/fr/jeu.htm
NIHONGO:  https://www.tnewfields.info/jp/asobi.htm
URDU:     https://www.tnewfields.info/Translations/Azqan6.htm
ZHŌNGWÉN: https://www.tnewfields.info/zh/haizi.htm