In late 1981, I was awakened at about 2:00 a.m. with the first half of this little poem chasing itself around in my mind. I tried to ignore it and go back to sleep, but it wouldn't go away. I finally got up, found a scrap of paper and a pencil, wrote down what I had been given, and went back to sleep. When I woke up later that morning, the rest of the poem was waiting for me to write down. I have made many attempts to write poems over the...