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Being Chosen


For the longest time I yearned for something more

Something was empty inside

I just didn't know why

Until one day I snooped around

Where I wasn't quite allowed

Onto a few papers that changed my veiw

Of me, myself and I

I was chosen, I was wanted

Not by my own, but by another

A lost cub in the wild

Taken in by strangers

Loved, clothed, nutured was I

I was chosen, I was wanted

Not by my flesh, but by another

I sought to find who this could be

Until I need not look futhermore

For she was right in my heart the entire time

Never leaving, always loving

I was chosen, I was wanted

That's all I ever wanted

And now I had

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