Thursday, October 16, 2008

What We Need

We need to train a generation of farmers, machinists, inventors, philosophers, preventative doctors, fitness experts, lawyers and judges, builders, teachers, professors, and most of all, leaders who also know how to follow, and who to follow.

to set an example for a generation of politicians,

to feed everyone with homespun technology

to part with daily routines as we know them

to find paths through soft terrain like money

to remove old landmines that nobody needed

to teach reason wisdom deep thought and ethics

to a generation we're too busy to take by the hand

too scared to risk reaching to hold a hand

to make damn sure we get a few things 100 % right

to as much as we'd like get together without barriers

to make hope out of harps for angels we bear

to make crops out of seasons and lay in the soil

to let affairs be few but matters be great

to make after each sentence some thought

to make better the reality everyone bought.