Wish
I wish I could have
seen and heard Theodore Roosevelt ,
Eugene Debs and Calvin Coolidge
speak their minds
I wish I could travel back
in time to see Daniel Webster,
meet Lewis and Clark
I wish time was malleable
And that we could travel back
to see Chaim Potok - J.R.R. Tolkien,
the Lubavitcher rebbe, Martin Luther King
But friend - you and I are trapped in the early 21st century
Let's try to make the
most of it
For as the Old Tentmaker knew "The moving finger writes - and having writ moves on....
Copyright © Matthew Anish | Year Posted 2012
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