Poems 2002

To Our Youth

Your questioning,
profound and innocent,
beckons me to the threshold
of infinity.

Such an inspiration
such a challenge
to probe unknown worlds
to find solutions
to the accumulated ignorance
that has sown pain and suffering
despoiling our heavenly planet
casting dreams and ideals
into a hellish cauldron
of senseless conflicts.

Your sensitivity,
so natural and pure,
is a blessed instinct
of unformed wisdom and purpose.

When I am with you
I feel like a child again
dipping my toes
into the ocean of the future
with excitement
with hesitation
with exuberant anticipation.
Our universe is so vast,
yet with your simple trust
your questions
your happiness
and your hope
you have helped me
feel at home here
and made my life
worthwhile.

I see in you
the carriers of the torches
that will illuminate
the coming age.

The age when friendship
and human development
will replace politics and greed,
the age where we will feel
love and gratitude
for all lives and all forms
that are on our earth
and protect and nurture them.
You have come to this planet
with the spiritual tools
to make the needed repairs.
History has prepared
the ground for you
to break the barriers
to tear down the walls
that were built by fears
by doubts
by selfishness
and sadness.
Proceed intelligently
with confidence
and with joy.

April 21, 2002
© 2002 Richard Sidy