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A Toast

July 9, 2016
By orangeslice SILVER, Midland, Michigan
orangeslice SILVER, Midland, Michigan
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Favorite Quote:
"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will long to return."
-Leonardo da Vinci

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
-Carl Sagan


Here's to fearing the unknown.

To feeding the growing rift between ideologies,

throwing good lives after bad

in search of ways to prove ourselves right.

 

Here's to letting questions go unanswered

because we fear the changes the answers might bring.

To allowing delusions to become our foundation,

reducing us to cowards in the face of wonder.

 

Here's to condemning discovery -

of science, of spirituality, of self.

To standing firm in our beliefs

by destroying the beliefs of others.

 

Here's to our blindfolded eyes

that don't see the hipocrisy

in fighting wars over religion.

To voting for leaders because they

are red or blue,

left or right.

To always blaming the other side.

 

Here's to stupidity,

shortsightedness,

greed,

and intolerance.

 

But here's also to our daydreams.

 

Here's to the pinprick of light

where the sky bleeds feeble hope.

To that lonely speck,

unafraid to shine on the dark horizon.

 

Here's to the millions of bleeding pinpricks in our sky,

as distant as they may be.

To the change they might affect.

To the wonder they have yet to instill.

 

Here's to tomorrow.

Here's to nursing our feeble hope

until it becomes an insurmountable

force of change.

 

Here's to you.


The author's comments:

I wrote this a couple years ago, but kept it to myself for a long time because it was really personal. With everything that's been happening in our world recently, I decided it was time to finally publish this.


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