<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=353716" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Wonder and Fear</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Many, including I, often fear the future. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">We fear life - because it's not concrete - because we cannot, and will not, learn it's mysteries.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Because nothing is certain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And those who prosper - can thank only luck</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">How can one keep the good in mind? - they ask</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I ripped a page out of Whitman, so that no matter where I went, I would always remember to celebrate myself. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For our atoms would keep each other company.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">How can one overcome mortality whence the fall begins? - they ask</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I don't think of it as falling, so much as flying. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But heavy thoughts - make me heavy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">What if history forgets us - they ask - How can one live forever? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Just as history repeats itself, so are we repeated - by embodiment - and inspiration. What inhumanity was mustard gas - was napalm - is now, atoms and pestilence and lasers. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They - as well as we - inspire - and embody - and live on.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Live on - to destroy. A purpose. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">What purpose can there be in such chaos - that is the world? - they ask</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Often I walk the road first - and find out after, where it leads.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=C.S.+Smith">C.S. Smith</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=353716" data-title="Wonder and Fear de C.S. Smith" data-description="Many, including I, often fear the future. We fear life - because it's not concrete - because we cannot, and will not, learn it's mysteries. Because nothing is certain. And those who prosper - can thank only luck How can one keep the good in..."></div> </div> </div>

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