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Heavenly body number three; that’s the planet where I was born free.
I’m luck, though I can’t explain why, atop the world’s great food-chain.
I know I could with cold selfishness , crave many things I don't need.
Gratefully I'll ask for no more, despite what fate's holding in store.

Living in a cultured Nation, I ponder at reincarnation.
 Blind destiny was cruel you see, as it dumped me in a sick family.
Others that are in the News, still exist in places I wouldn't choose.
And even though my childhood's sad, I have good health and didn’t go mad.

Growing up devoid of friends, allowed me to visit many strange new lands.
Free to attempt life’s many things, without the ties that close friendship brings
Without ties I took the risk shunning houses that families daren’t lose.
 I used the freedom to chase my dreams, ’cross Oceans, Rivers and small streams!

 I've lived and worked in many lands, cooked local dishes in pots and pans.
Delicacies that the locals eat, strange looking plants and their stranger meat.
Food’s a pleasure when travelling with so much choice different cultures bring.
And music to entice your ears, too much to learn in a few short years.

So when at last you go back home to mix with the family friends you've known
But before too long you once again, find living in hell is too much Pain.
And this vast world that we call our Earth, of strange new places has no dearth.
So if I live a century more these feet from travelling will be sore!

 The day will come when I will tire, and stay at home in front of a fire.
To reminisce on life gone by, still wondering ‘Where the years did fly?’
Listening to those around me talking of places they have yearned to see
There'll be a part of me that grins, remembering times abroad with friends.

You journey across both sea and land, from fertile soils to desert sand,
Every trip you undertake in strange new lands, will your horizon widen.
When you make your choice alone, select ingredients and bake your cake.
When walking paths you've chosen well you’ll live a full life and want no more.

But if that’s how you’ll spend your life, time will be short to search for a wife.
Families place a great demand, on limited resources you command.
If you sacrifice time and money, see the places with ‘Milk and Honey’,
Soak yourself in healing waters, then you may forfeit sons and daughters!

While growing old you look around, at treasure collections you have found,
And in your PC address book, for friendly names it’s the place to look.
Entries found span across the world, as you read your memories are unfurled.
It’s tempting just to say “Enough!”, But you are made of much sterner stuff.

A traveler's life will never cease, you buy new clothes because they won’t crease.
Knowing that when the summer comes, with bushes full of flowers and plums,
You’ll always at the airport be, to visit friends you simply must see.
Even though you met them last year, you’re only happy when they are near.