A frog in a well does not know the great sea

By AdrianJ

I've recently discovered, that I have white blood in me
that I'm mixed in a DNA sort of way.

That I'm the Oreo - that you all thought that I was.
Not that it surprises me
or shocks me
or I don't take some perverse self-loathing, inferiority complex pride in it.

But then again,
I was never
who I appeared to be

I've never had a nationality
the whole world is my home

To think that you have to get permission
to go to a part of the planet
that is all yours

Is ridiculous

And you tell me my ideas are insane.
If I wrote you as a novel, no one would believe it.
They would say "it's too unrealistic"

Which is the irony
because that is the reality - that omnipresent illusion
that we find ourselves trapped in

A frog in a well does not know the great sea.

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Published on Saturday, May 24, 2008. Filed under: "Reflective" and "Poetry"

Comments on "A frog in a well does not know the great sea"

A former member wrote: love the idealism here, I think it works well as far as one can walk across boarders... but when one must rely on an economic system to purchase transportation.... well, then it seems a little more difficult to assert one's world ownership, though the ideal is very appealing. I'd love to know the great sea.... I think it's time you return and post more enlightening work!
A former member wrote: white blood.... crazy humans... what would we do without these determinations that "define" the indefinable....?
On Wednesday, November 11, 2009, DarkPoet (229) wrote:

I was somewhat pleased when I got around to reading the international declaration of human rights, and found that it says that nobody should be denied the right of travel to any nation or area. I'm definitely in accord with dropping the frog a ladder.
A former member wrote: I know... silly rules we humans make ;).... Jurgen Habermas was an advocate of a world civilization... that the United Nations should become a true world legislative body where citizenship would belong to all... limiting national sovereignty in many ways based on a claim to human liberties. Anywho.... just another philosopher spoutin' about something.....
On Thursday, June 12, 2008, Dancing_Monkey (1228) wrote:

I feared the title was the punch line :(
On Thursday, June 12, 2008, Withering petals (65) wrote:

"I've never had a nationality the whole world is my home" - I hear you loud and clear - I'm mixed - so to speak - God, I'm soo many different things, I'm half Egyptian, a quarter Irish, and a quarter Cherokee Indian - and I've visited so many different countries - and when people ask me where I'm from, or who I am, my response is "I'm a citizen of the world," - this poem hits home for me, definitely another favorite, I Like your work :) ~Downstream~
A former member wrote: Indeed. I am a mutt; a blonde haired, blue eyed mutt, at that. What are the odds, right? And I prefer it that way. People ask me what I am and I answer "human."
On Thursday, May 29, 2008, carlosjackal (2788) wrote:

Intense meaning and the message is spot on. -Carl
On Saturday, May 24, 2008, Six-Out (1423) wrote:

I really like this. I'll be reading more of your stuff.