I miss the future maybe more than the past
what was to be and now will not
tragically gliding forward and away from us
there were happier men in that future
there was justice in that future
and most of all there was great poetry

can we bring it back forward
or is it gone forever
men will never have the character and intellect
that was to be so

being of the future
this loss cannot technically be 
a fall from grace
but being so close to realization
it feels we really did lose something
and now that wisdom, gentleness, and peace
is never to be had, or almost had, again

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