I found God as a child; then as a soldier,
a husband, a father and now as I approach
an end to my life in the jungle...it is not Darwin
but God,
who calms my innermost and primitive fear.

As a child I loved to go fishing after a summer shower
to catch the biggest rainbows....

2009 © T.S.

Ted Sheridan

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