Live not in blame, <br />Live up to your name, <br />Put the human back in humanity, <br />Exist in words of love and peace, <br />And not of hate and profanity. <br /> <br />A fleeting glance, <br />A second chance, <br />To dispel the modern day stigma, <br />Swim hard against the surging tide, <br />Be a contemporary enigma. <br /> <br />Resist the dash, <br />The hunt for cash, <br />The pursuit of the latter-day prophet, <br />Watch the wheels of the money-go-round, <br />And plot your journey off-it. <br /> <br />And so contrive, <br />Man-kind to revive, <br />Of this I do implore, <br />A voyage to begin, by looking within <br />A Human soul to restore, <br /> <br />Though I sound dramatic, <br />I’m truly pragmatic, <br />My words are of course symbolic, <br />But he who has neither dream nor hope, <br />Is destined to be melancholic.<br /><br />Daniel P Martin<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-journey-of-a-thousand-miles-2/
