And here I am. "They'd never know me now!"

For what is left of me, what ever was

To be peeled off to realest core? The soldier

Gone out of me entirely; long ago,

The dreamer of a better world; the self

That said I'm on the pinnacle, took arms

To free the Cubans; self of me that hungered

For pyramids and mountains, ancient streams,

Nile and the Ganges; self of me that turned