I can't see down the road, <br /> anymore than you can, <br /> I have never found a reason, <br /> to repeat mistakes of others, <br /> catching up is tough enough, <br /> without those complications, <br /> but then again, I've never been, <br /> as far behind as you have. <br /> <br /> Amazing big leaps forward, <br /> at the cost of only people, <br /> the expendable, dispensible, <br /> disposible - - - humanity unseen. <br /> <br /> I can't see down the road, <br /> anymore than you can, <br /> but, I tend to hope you wouldn't want, <br /> your government to do that for you, <br /> if you knew what they were doing. <br /> <br /> You can't see down the road, <br /> and you dare not drink your water, <br /> You want standing in the world, <br /> though it's not allowed within your borders, <br /> ... or those you've taken over. <br /> <br /> It is not an easy thing I ask, <br /> to put upon your shoulders, <br /> ... the massive weight of change. <br /> <br /> As you stand before the crossing roads, <br /> you want us to play games, <br /> to call tyranny, false ecstasy, <br /> and pretend that's how it should be. <br /> <br /> We all know that further on, <br /> some chasm may develop, <br /> ... let us take this opportunity, <br /> ... let's build the bridge that must be built, <br /> ... knowing one day we must cross it, <br /> ... before everything is lost to us.<br /><br />Barry Van Allen<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/olympic-dreams-3-26-2008/
