The Men Who Don't Fit In

[AltTransBikes]

<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;"><strong><a id="The Men Who Don't Fit In" name="The Men Who Don't Fit In" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a>The Men Who Don't Fit In</strong></span><br><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><br>There's a race of men that don't fit in,<br> &nbsp;A race that can't stay still;<br> So they break the hearts of kith and kin,<br> &nbsp;And they roam the world at will.<br> They range the field and they rove the flood,<br> &nbsp;And they climb the mountain's crest;<br> Theirs is the curse of the gypsy blood,<br> &nbsp;And they don't know how to rest.</span><p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">If they just went straight they might go far;<br> &nbsp;They are strong and brave and true;<br> But they're always tired of the things that are,<br> &nbsp;And they want the strange and new.<br> They say: "Could I find my proper groove,<br> &nbsp;What a deep mark I would make!"<br> So they chop and change, and each fresh move<br> &nbsp;Is only a fresh mistake.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">And each forgets, as he strips and runs<br> &nbsp;With a brilliant, fitful pace,<br> It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones<br> &nbsp;Who win in the lifelong race.<br> And each forgets that his youth has fled,<br> &nbsp;Forgets that his prime is past,<br> Till he stands one day, with a hope that's dead,<br> &nbsp;In the glare of the truth at last.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">He has failed, he has failed; he has missed his chance;&nbsp;<br> &nbsp;He has just done things by half.<br> Life's been a jolly good joke on him,<br> &nbsp;And now is the time to laugh.<br> Ha, ha!&nbsp; He is one of the Legion Lost;<br> &nbsp;He was never meant to win;<br> He's a rolling stone, and it's bred in the bone;&nbsp;<br> &nbsp;He's a man who won't fit in.<br><br>Robert Service <em>The Spell of the Yukon and other verses. 1907</em><br><br><br></span></p>

 

[bk2valve]

So this is why! I am a rolling stone!<br>Bri

 

[RAILROADGREEN]

wow, sounds like me and my life. fellow traveler gary!!

 

[cyndi]

Love that, alttrans!

 

[dragonflyinthesky]

Thanks, this&nbsp;poem is about &nbsp;me.<IMG class="emoticon bbc_img" src="/images/boards/smilies/smile.gif">&nbsp; I saved it in my files so I don't feel alone.<BR><SPAN style="COLOR: #ff00ff">Dragonfly</SPAN>

 

[mockturtle]

It is significant that Service uses the word <em>won't</em> rather than <em>doesn't</em> or <em>can't</em>, as '<em>won't'</em> implies a willfulness.&nbsp; There are those who want to fit it but can't, or don't, and there are those who <em>won't</em>&nbsp; because they don't want to.&nbsp; Great poem.&nbsp;

 

[user 423]

".....another word for nothin' left to lose".

 

[VanTrekker]

<p>What a cool poem!&nbsp; I was feeling exactly that way when I read it.&nbsp; <img src="/images/boards/smilies/smile.gif" border="0" align="absmiddle"><br><br>V.T.</p>

 

[Coffee Tim]

Great poem!!!