Happy New Year

new year's resolution

If we keep fighting forward,

Through these awful lands I’m sure,

The power we’ve been told we have

Will make its grand premier.

We’ll see the truth, shining clear,

For all to see and hear.

And success is imminent

In the wildest imagination.

This world is too big

For us little humans.

Maybe we can’t

Fight quite like we thought.

The failures of the past

Seem to linger and to last

Past their expiration date,

And to simmer in the hearts

Of those who start the fire.

We are crazed and dreamless killers,

And we kill within our dreams.

But sooner rather than later,

Life will surely grant us wings.

Little humans don’t give up.

You have time still yet to come.

Hold on tight.

You’ll find out soon.

How to travel to the moon,

And far beyond!

 

 

Author's Note

2nd posting, hurray for restoration!

Reviews

[Christopher 'Windstorm'..]

beautiful and well written

[Clinton A Jones]

Here there are veiled, and not so veiled warnings behind a new year's resolution. The imagery invokes the poison of nuclear waste even while it stands as a burning drive to look beyond "And to simmer in the hearts / Of those who start the fire." Is hope humanity's fantasy of escape so that we don't have to face the disasters and crimes we commit?

[Debra Stevens Edwards (..]

It Is not shabby at all. It has an attitude of being out rage at the our all from grace still sure That Good will prevail in the end. Very Nicely Done.
Debby

[Lydia Shutter]

I liked the attitude here. If we want something badly enough, we must fight for it. The world is at war and it seems sometimes there is no hope...but that is not the case at all. Good work. Lydia

[Andromeda]

i like it. it's not your best, but i like it. we kill w/in our dreams--i really like that.