Greg Patrick's poem "Traveler"
A dual citizen of Ireland and the states, Greg Patrick is an Irish Armenian traveler poet and the son of a Navy man. Greg spent his youth in the South Pacific and Europe and currently resides in Galway, Krakow, and sometimes the states. He now writes and travels. "Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.” ― George R.R. Martin, Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones Call no man “stranger” who knows his own heart. The caravan fires burn like pyres to the day’s dreams, red dreams in which one looks so intently as to be lost in the silence of one’s own thoughts as each strays from the song played before all. The ashen daydreams brought by each one like an offering to cast to the flames and betrayed in a gleaming behind the depth of eyes alone. Not a reflection of the circle’s fire like starlight microcosmed but one’s...