For the Boomers
Who will stand up
for
the dreamers,
the poor
the music unsung?
These frail words
stand in the context of
LOVE
piercing through the Frail
curtain of humanity's weight.
Illusory shadows of life have
hidden our soul.
We need to
stop our insane dance of consumption
and act and love
under starry, starry skies and star-lit candles.
Will we, as Boomers, again stand up
for the Dreamers
the eccentric wheelers,
for silences unsaid
and the words unheard
Those were the days by Mary Hopkins reminded me that we may be older but no wiser and perhaps that is perhaps a good thing as we may have yet time to fulfil not just the opportunities of our youth, but the promises we mad to ourselves in our youth.
At one point in my life, I believed that we all had the same ability to grasp the opportunities that came along. I did not realise that this idea was not true. Opportunities are always there, but because of many factors in our life, or the way we build our way of seeing the world some of us see these opportunities but we do not act on the opportunities that come along. Some of us for the same reasons never see the opportunities so have no opportunity to act.
Those of us who were lucky seized some opportunities and ignored others; while we continued to live our life's and engage with the world. However, when we were young we made promises to ourselves, and if we have not yet fulfilled those promises, my hope is that as we get older, we remember, then act on, and keep those promises.
I saw, many years ago, on a graffiti wall this message: "I wish I could be the hero/heroine, I thought I would be when I was 10. " As younger Boomers move into their 60's and older move into their 70's maybe we will have the chance and the courage to be that hero/heroine once more.
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