For all of the places I've never seen  Scenic wonders or a well constructed Edifice adorned by the intricacies  Of the masons chisel  A white sandy beach on the aqua Caribbean  Stretching to a distant headland  Whos vista is disturbed by a Barbadian summers haze  A European forest where I might walk for one week among trees in their  Natural habitat  I've never sat at the stern of a liner  midway between here and there  No land glimpses above the endless curving  Horizons  In every direction  I've never seen these things first hand  With both of my bespectacled eyes  Only in two dimensions  From another's point of view  Maybe one day  But then again  I see what is in front of me  Beautiful  And  Ugly  Kindly, respectfully  Despairingly and compassionately  Just like you.  AGL