Incompleteness, failure, ruin and death
The could ‘as and the should as’ all wasted breath.
The project lies dormant, the structure not built,
The tears over flowing as the milk lies split,
The piling of casualties from the battle not fought,
The pain of regret when the performance came up short.
This is not what the people expected to see.
The reason for this outcome is like a mystery
The Heroes defeated without explanation,
The Visionaries diverted from their destination…
ENOUGH!
Is this the new fashion, is this the new trend?
Are we here for a season, will this losing streak end?
Question after question, who can give an account,
Why the number of failures has reached this amount?
Only now at the end do we all realise.
How did these things take us by surprise?
Prophets and seers have nothing to say.
Should these wise men not have warned us before today?
The vision was a lie but was it ever true?
Could this outcome have been seen before it was due?
Arrogant we were, steps we missed out.
We didn’t understand what these things are about.
This can not be accepted. This can not be resolved,
Until this mysterious problem is solved
At the start we agreed that this path was the way,
An opinion not sustained in the light of this day.
We all testified that our convictions were true.
The future looked bright for the things we would do.
Now things have turned ill, our hope changed to terror,
It’s time to look back and locate the error.
Hope and faith are mankind’s greatest strengths.
Together can take us to extraordinary lengths.
But these alone protect not from delusion
We can find ourselves following an illusion
To achieve the exploits we believed we should do,
We can end up throwing out the things that were true.
Afraid of failure we are blinded to reason.
Critical analysis is branded as treason.
To defend our beliefs with lies that cheer,
Is not evidence of faith but a display of fear.
Faith is the trust of the invisible that is real,
Based on laws that exist not merely hype and zeal.
So it can be measured and therefore projected,
And the future be saved if presumption is corrected.
If deception exists then foresight can be blurred
It must be exposed by the power of the true word
Then gaps can be bridged and the lack can be filled,
Securing foundations before we start to build
So we can accommodate the unforeseen event.
Then the unfulfilled dream will be a thing we can prevent.