Hope I’m Around

When I was ten I could hardly believe
The changes occurring around me
The President dead, the country in grief
The images viewed on the TV

I came of age on that fateful day
The world no longer a mystery
It opened my eyes to that staged world play
It gave me respect for its history

Now fifty years hence the world has changed
And much of it seems to be teetering
On the brink of disaster from idiots deranged
To bring us much harm with their terror thing

But in the same sense, no change has occurred 
It seems that nothing is different
The Beatles are back, Doctor Who on the tube
The past has become today's present

When I look past the past, will the future hold tears?
I’m wondering what will the normal be?
I just hope I’m around, for the next fifty years
So I see what the present has in store for me.

Will I look back and know, as I recall the past
That today had a glimmer of hope for us?
That the world will be fine, that it’s all meant to last
And the future’s past will somehow deliver us?

Roger D. Linder: FAWM 2014
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