Millennium Cycle

With age comes wisdom which quickly fades
yet mankind survives to live but another day
within the shelter of fragile bleak,
protecting the young but not the forgotten weak.

Cycles cast young against old in endless circles
all encompassing never embracing still to be told
what wonderment the simple minds do seek,
protecting the young but not the forgotten weak.

Soaring high in endless search
infatuated with knowledge beyond their reach
the irony of fulfillment driving even the meek,
protecting the young but not the forgotten weak.

The mystic unknown craving the soul
awakening perils within the darkness of sleep
a staggering rage heightening, reaching it’s peak,
protecting the young but not the forgotten weak.

Moral to learn within the millennium to come
intellects searching, never finding the truth to behold
today as yesterday falls to the fields of wheat,
protecting the young for we are the forgotten weak.

Samuel E. Stone
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