The magic bullet.

The bullet was random.

To everyone else that is.

To me it was particular.

It hit me in the forehead.

Apparently if anyone

deserved it it was me.

They said it ruined my career

i was the best lawyer in the city.

But it didn't  

it changed me is all,

thats for sure it did.

I lost my memory

Had to learn everything

from scratch

Just like a kid again.

I found out later I did not

Like who I was

I hated what I did

Before bullet day.

I quit being a lawyer

I could not stand the lies.

I had lied and cheated on my wife

.a beautiful lady told me

she was my lover.

I told her I did not know her

And I was happily married.

With a beautiful daughter.

She left weeping.

My young daughter

taught me how

To tie my shoelaces.

How to read again with

Dick jane and spot.

I limp pretty bad now

Brain damage they say.

I talk softer and care more.

Then my beautiful wife started

to care about me.

She kissed me and

Showed me how

to make love to her.

She was new to me

And I was new to her.

It was our second first time.

Just as exciting as I could imagine.

Just like the first time must have been.

The one that I could not remember.

I asked of her how did we first meet

She says at a party

I swept her off her feet

The new me can not sweep

anything but the kitchen floor.

Then she said we met again

After a big storm  in our life.

Just recently and I needed her

So badly and that she needed me.

And that my daughter has fallen in love

With her new gentle caring dad.

The one with a bullet

lodged in his brain.

The one that is childlike

And is totally sure of

what is right and wrong.

But most of all the one that

Hates his old self

And loves his new found family

More than life itself.

We downsized

A small country cottage

But it glows in the night

From all of the love

That lives inside

its humble walls

Sometimes in the quietness

Of the evening

I say a prayer of thanks

And forgiveness

For the man

Who shot me in the head.

His aim must have been guided

By the angels.