We have been given a myriad of reasons not to,
But I believe in tomorrow
Yesterday has lessons of despair and doubts,
But I believe in tomorrow
Some of our todays are unbelievable,
But we must believe in tomorrow
Yesterday and today were good, bad, and ugly,
But I still believe in tomorrow
Revisionists often try to change history,
distorting facts and creating fiction, giving
me more reasons to believe in tomorrow
No account of yesterday nor reality of today
can stop me from believing in tomorrow
Categories:
revisionists, future,
Form: Free verse
Josiah conquers revisionists
by stating an old-world axiom:
“When seeking structure,
one must be mindful of decay.”
He taps a rusted column with
an ordinary wooden cane,
releasing decades of oxidation
in particulate dust.
As his nephew secures the wire
on the final shape-charge
a tear wells with nostalgia
and sympathy for the hobbled
until the flurry of blasts
at zero.
Categories:
revisionists, death
Form: Free verse