(......01july17) Lurching To Be Born Poem by Max Reif

A funny thing happened
on the way to the New Age
around the year 1980,
as the Celestial Seasonings
herb tea company
seemed to be creating
a new world all by itself,
one smelling of chamomile,
peppermint and peach.

Coffee and coca-cola
appeared to be living
on borrowed time

until at the last minute, millions
of people panicked and said,

'Stop! Don't take into extinction
the drink I had after my first kiss,

or the one I could smell
Dad brewing every morning
my first 17 years
as I came downstairs! '

Vision is one thing,
true surrender
quite another.