Foresight

Foresight                          9/1/2016

Every day is different

And every day is the same

Each one a risk

And each one a blessing. 

There is joy

And there is sorrow

Heartache

And happiness.

Would we even know?

One without the other

And what would contentment mean?

Without patience

And effort. 

When I didn’t know

I wasted my strength

Fighting against myself

And swinging at shadows.

I did not know

But then I had to learn

Patience and perspective

Through trial 

And test.

We were all

Just puppets on a string

Dancing to the pipe

On our way

Off a cliff. 

None of it was real

And all of it was fake

As others pulled our chain

Just to make us jump.

Now we know

And now we must think

About all that was

And all,

That might have been. 

But what is ahead

Is the most important of all

As we all can see

The looming fraud. 

Many suffer

Burned and broken

All for a lie

That was never true at all.

But the truth remains

Even in darkness

And never has it burned brighter

Than right here

And right now. 

There is nothing

That has been lost

That cannot be reborn

Better than ever

Ten times ten thousand.  

But everything hinges 

On what we do 

Now that we see

And now that we know.  

The dead 

Had no warning

And the sleeping 

Have no ears.

It is up to us

To witness and record

Standing firm in the truth

No matter what

And no matter how. 

Loyal to the end 

And faithful to the core

Determined, relentless,

Truthful and strong.