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by the dawning hope

of a once before only

old and forgotten dream

I felt the firming hands

of the future's refusal

all but cast me into a

breathless stream

Reality

the none too clearly thinking

man's life vest

a carefully constructed concept

of faulty fractured humanity

built upon the precarious foundation

that man is a clever primal creature

clearly to be reckoned with

it was only later until we learned

that it was only by consequences

brought on by his own arrogant mistakes

at times man kind even equivocated to

nothing more than a laughing stock to

mother nature

we've become far too accustomed to history

sadly repeating herself

slavery, war, democracy, communism, famine

and drought

and all the while she's taken on the unwanted

role of traditions favorite teacher

but this should not have to be so

just how many of our fathers must continue

to suffer so to teach the rest of us our

harder necessary lessons

it is a most brutal and self deceiving factor

one man's suffering could teach another man

restraint

this process long before now should have been

let go

man's own blood should not have to be plentiful

ink from which we draw to write history's vast

ledgers of human mistake in verse

ironically enough though we've come so far so fast

yet in a lot of the more important ways

we are far, far worse

the founding fathers of our infant country

would weep foul bitter tears if they could

only see to just what absurdly vulgar degree

we've abused their incredibly generous yet

so well thought out legacy

in short

throughout the unfolding ages

man very well may be much more advanced

yet he's simultaneously become even more of

a menace

so let us pray fervently that this

'Brilliantly Stupid' animal man

adapts himself most humbly to his environment

and that he doesn't continue on this cruel

path of forcing his dwindling environment

to adapt to him

for if he does

he will surely kill the all giving mother

earth

year by unfortunate year

and mother earth will be forced to take hers

back

and somehow retaliate

by killing all of man.................

(May 4, 1998)