Thinks

Could he possibly pass as normal?

Sometimes he thinks that given this or that,
some extra height, a mentor’s guidance; if
he’d not been shocked by death scares as a child,
through illness, mid-night fears, the blitz; he might
have been a little braver, followed his star,
and carved RF was here on the tree of life.

He also thinks it’s taken every ounce
of grit and guile, simply to pass as normal.
This seemed important once, and that is why
it’s left to some less cautious outcome of
this game of chance to run their race, and do
what he might have done in a parallel universe.