Connections from Whitman

I can relate to both of the first two stanzas in There Was a Child Went Forth.  When I was a young boy, I received a Pokemon video game.  I spent countless hours wasting away my time with that game, and others in the series.  It became a big part of me for "a cycle of years".  On the weekends I would play the same game (video games, outdoor games, made-up games) for hours, whichever one I decided after waking up.  I also was fixated on a few aspects of nature as a young child.  I would listen to birds sing for hours and wonder how and why they did it.  I used to go mountain biking with my dad at Rock Cut a few times a month.  There are a few spots there that fascinated me and I could not understand why things are the way they are.  Back then it was all a mystery, yet it was wonderful.