affection

I'd enjoy nothing better (if the case were so,)

that the glow from my intellectual renown attracted

a bracket of friends, as a team, to implement

momentous solutions to the global problems of today.

I'm way distant from attaining such a status,

and lately my scholastic performance was poor enough

to snuff out residual faith in existing

charisma - if indeed it was ever there!

I'll spare a year or two from social mingling,

to bring my personality and attitude

to fruitful maturity - emerging (I might hope) defined

on the line the world is taking, and how to belong.

Before such purposes have been agreed,

reclusion might remain my greatest need.