The winner who lived

Years of my life

Spent in a sensory quest

To prove

What?

What people already know to be true

But to myself?

My old hopes

How they grew and changed

Both based on my own eyes

And those around me who see

Just exactly who

I was becoming to be

And now

I am honored

Just to be even a passing thought

In the memory and mind

If so many others

That was me

Alive