Reflections form a perfect circle
Bringing the past into the present
And the present into the past
I create a history I prefer
Reforming memories I prefer
To remember
Tag: history
We go dancing across the water
He came dancing across the water
With his galleons and guns
Cortez, Cortez
What a killer
Magicians
Any sufficiently advanced technology
Is indistinguishable from magic
Arthur C. Clarke once said
Is indistinguishable from magic
Arthur C. Clarke once said
But I can look back
At a time without industry
Without machines
Without, even, the wheel
Dominoes
In Saigon
The anniversary
Twenty years ago
A domino had toppled
The anniversary
Twenty years ago
A domino had toppled
Now, joy and smiles
Such beautiful smiles
Even for the Americans
Once enemies, welcomed now as friends
Derelict Docks
The only thing
Unchanging
In a landscape
Of the past
Unchanging
In a landscape
Of the past
Is the part of us
Which believes history
Is about the past
Moral Victories
Moral victories
Ring hollow
In every context
But imagination
Ring hollow
In every context
But imagination
The Dreamtime
From the grey
Unbroken void
Ancestors rose
Their voices rang
Unbroken void
Ancestors rose
Their voices rang
With their first step
Began their song
Which made the land
I stand upon
A time of battlements and bulwarks
I set myself
In bygone time
Fantasize
On maidens fair
And fair white knights
In bygone time
Fantasize
On maidens fair
And fair white knights
This castle’s lords
Then I rethink
Erected stone
To stay the will of men
So it began…
So it began
Some billions of years ago
In pools such as these
On the shores of a boiling sea
Some billions of years ago
In pools such as these
On the shores of a boiling sea
From the humblest beginnings
A miracle still
Such simple creatures
Would become the miracle, me
I drive through history
I drive through history
Illuminating the present
Drawing a map
Into the future
Illuminating the present
Drawing a map
Into the future
I remind myself
Do not linger in the past
I need to know where I am
And look where I am going