When the child was a child,
It was time for these questions:
Why am I me, and why not you?
Why am I here, and why not there?
When did time begin and where does space end?
Is life under the sun not just a dream?
How can it be that I, who Iam,
didn't exist before I came to be,
and that, someday, I, who Iam,
will no longer be who Iam?
-An excerpt from "Song of Childhood" by Peter Handke


