Looking at myself

Don't say I am a force to be reckoned with

Just because I kicked in a door once.

Don't think that I am brave

Because I saved a dog from its abusive owner.

(It's just that my love for animals

Is stronger than my fear of bullies.)

Don't say I am wise because

Something I said would happen, happened.

Or that I was reborn

Because I survived a near-death experience.

(I didn't choose to go on living

And the doctors get all the credit for my recovery.)

Don't say I'm a good dancer either.

I'm just someone who lets the music move me.

And please, don't say I'm a good, decent man.

I know that people see what they want to see.

Don't tell people I'm one of the smartest people you know.

I've already forgotten half the words I used to know.

The truth is, if you saw what I saw

When I look in the mirror

You wouldn't think so highly of me.

To myself I look like an old chief

Who hasn't vision quested for too long.

I am not who you think I am.

You see, I'm 75, and I never loved my enemy,

And I never did anything

To stop the destruction of the rainforest.