Musings from the Inflection Point of History

-"Is it over?"

+"Has it even begun?"

-"Would you even know if it started?"

+"Would you ever know it could end?"

-"Where can we go from here?"

+"How could I go any direction but forward?"

-"Do I not go in step with you but facing back the way we came?

+"Like stumbling backward into history?"

-"Has there ever been a different way?"

+"What if you turned around and walked into the future boldly?"

-"What do you imagine I would see?"

+"How could I describe it to you? Would you even understand the things that I see"

-"Who could say?"

+"Maybe?"

-"How have you, looking forward your entire life, and I looking back, not yet seen the answer?"

+"How can you not dare to dream that this time would be different?"

-"Why can you not simply accept the way things are and have always been?"

+"Why won't you consider that the past doesn't condemn us to our future?"

-"How can I think otherwise, seeing what I have always seen?"

+" "

-"Where did you go?"

+" "

-"Hello?"

+"Maybe it's just not in our natures? Maybe turning around, facing each other and our own realities, would destroy us?"

-"Could you turn and bear the weight of the past?"

+"Could you handle the immensity of an unbounded future?"

="Is our current state better than the alternative?"