Insight

He had always wanted to meet Thor Heyerdahl ,

And now that he was dead, he could,

And, in fact, had been granted his wish

Of meeting two others he’d always held in high esteem

While he was living.

But because he had to go back in time to meet them,

He had a chance to view their lives in rewind, too.

In toto, he could see how they had actually been,

How they had treated their own families,

And he found that they were all assholes.

But then he arrived at a place in space and time where they were born.

What sweet babies they all three were!

And he managed to peek behind the curtain 

To find them as their spirits were in death now,

So perfect, and so at peace with themselves and everyone else!

And so he decided that in his next life,

He wasn’t going to wish to meet anyone famous,

Or either would he work to be anyone whom others might admire,

But his only striving would be to stay as innocent 

As the glorious, angelic infants he’d seen were.

-jenn