All for “Progress”
Don’t speak your mind
Just step in line
Or the thought police will come
They’re hard to spot
They’re quite a lot
Sleeper agents trained in public school
Your life, job, and family are what they seek to wreck
They don’t realize that it’s they themselves the Masters will forget
All for Progress
Another day
Another dollar
Another day
Time passes
Slips away
Reason
Hope held out
For quite some time
Till I woke this morning
Unable to find
Reason to hold on
To something long gone
The memories are nice
But it’s time to move along
Can
Can the mistakes of the past
Ever be fixed
Can we overcome ourselves
To find that something we missed
Wrecked
This body’s wrecked
The joints ache
The muscles burn
The mind teeters
On the head of a pin
It wobbles but stands
But for how long
A pleasant view
I wonder when the world ends
If I’ll be there to see
The mountains crumble into dust
The sky bursting at the seams
I have a place all prepped to go
With a pleasant view
A cigar, fine wine, and place to dine
In case my dream comes true
True Love
True love comes round
But once in this life
If you choose not to cherish it
You’ll find eternal strife
I know this is fact
As it happened to me
This fool didn’t realize
How good it could be
He tossed it aside
Again and again
Until it wouldn’t come back
True sorrow came then
For which there’s no cure
Though time numbs the pain
But it shows it was pure
The love was I mean
I’ll cherish those memories
Keep them locked up inside
I’ll never release them
Even after I die
Time heals all things
Time heals all things
Hear it a lot
A lie to be sure
As it surely does not
The hole never fills
Hurt rarely subsides
A void in the heart
Where numbness resides
Unseen
Light of a new day
Stars in the sky
Planes overhead
Cars passing by
Good times and bad times
And those in between
So much existence
Is still left unseen
Space is taking too long.
Where are the imagined vessels and technologies Asimov, Heinlein, and Clarke promised? The exhilarating lands beyond the stars with their tantalizing secrets woven like tapestries across the pages. The Hero’s and Heroine’s pushed to the extreme both physically and mentally, forced to perform under the most extreme of pressures. Some ended in failure and despair, but those that managed to succeed proved time and again that we, the human race, are capable of anything.
Instead, we seem to be drudging along in the stone age of fossil fuels. Our space programs gone now, we have to hitch a ride with Russia to get out of orbit. I realize it may not have been the biggest money maker but the non-monetary benefits were, and could be, even more impressive.
We as a species have conquered this planet. We bend or break everything to our will, from the tiniest cricket to the tallest mountain, for better or for worse. If we can accomplish what we have just over the past 2000 years, there’s no reason that we can’t use that strength to spread our grasp throughout the stars!
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