'' Our Future Lies In The Past '' Poem by Bri Mar

'' Our Future Lies In The Past ''



There are prophets and mediums also known as seers,
Who'll lay claim they can predict your future years,
They’ll fill you with joy or confirm your worst fears,
Their projections will leave you aghast.

They’ll tell you their vision of what lies ahead,
You’ll gasp in awe as your tealeaves are read,
How do they know that you’ll end up dead?
The depth of their knowledge is vast.

Long passed relatives from another dimension,
Filling you up with sheer apprehension,
Is it all true or just blatant pretension?
In stone their prediction is cast?

Around looking ahead the human race have devolved,
From reality to fantasy we have evolved,
Yet none of our problems have ever been resolved,
Our incompetence is unsurpassed.

There’ll be times I’ll laugh and times I’ll cry,
I’m not a clairvoyant but I do know I’ll die,
Does the title of soothsayer to me apply?
I need to know as time’s running out fast.

We will continue to murder and kill for fun,
Our resources on Earth will soon be done,
The planet will ignite under a warming sun,
Due to the failures we have amassed.

Our species will starve due to over population,
Disease will spread throughout every nation,
All life will suffer due to our depredation,
A situation we refuse to lambaste.

This is what lies ahead accept it as fact,
Throughout history our failures remain intact,
The oracle of life is what humans re-enact,
We have tied our sail to that mast.

By ignoring past mistakes and casting them aside,
Over the death of our planet we now preside,
What went before should be our ultimate guide,
But to accept that leaves us harassed.

Our history is where lessons must be learned,
Failure to do so will leave us concerned,
The right to survival must always be earned,
It determines how long we will last.

We as a species love to sit on the fence,
To continue blindly on is totally dense,
We can all see our future it’s called common sense,
Yet we ignore the oncoming blast.

We all know what’s ahead it is there in our face,
Continuing to ignore it is a terrible disgrace,
The answers to the destiny of the human race,

'’ Our Future Lies In The Past ‘’

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