By Joshua Hitching *C*
There And Thereafter
There it lay
an array
of knowledge
Power
Ambition
Before us
We look forward
See our future
Pass through time
We look behind us
See our past
See how that big sailing mast drove us past
Wish it was bigger
That we did
Sometimes, you have to be a kid.
Now
The moment
The present
Is when importance is foremost
This is the moment
A future may depend on
Lay in our hands
The means
Of moulding our own
Image
Of ourselves; there and thereafter