Progress?

What does it say

When you throw it away

Where does your future go?

How can we see

Eternity

When we've lost sight of what's below?

They tell us that progress

Is what we should seek

They tell us the past is passe

They tell us the future

Is coming and soon

The old things must pass away.

But what makes what's here

something to fear

What makes our own past something wrong?

Why do we eschew

The truths we lived through

When we've known them for so very long?

I think that the past

Holds things that should last

There are truths across history's span.

I don't think that we'll reach

The vision we teach

If we lose sight of where we began.

by. Jonathan Schaefer

02/10/2015