Frontiers Poem by patricia dashwood

Frontiers that Mother Nature laid
No longer maintain a barricade

The pathless barriers of the Seven Seas
Now traveled, due to buoyancy

Impassable deserts, dry barren regions
Long conquered despite their afflictions

Man mastered the summit of Everest
Mountains confines ever since repressed

The challenge of nature, seemingly insufficient,
Man made his own limits, civil defense efficient.

Hadrian’s, the Romans, the Great China wall
Fortifications were built to protect from pitfall

Trading and wars, race and religion
Frontiers continue to grow with contagion

With Windows and Gates, vertual technology
A world has been made that is frontier free

I like to imagine how free we would be
If man had not marked his own boundary
2009