The unknown is with us,

In this time, in this place.

As the millenium approaches, we wait.

For others to lead the way, to blaze the path to the future.

For others to supply the answers to our questions.

Questions that are thought but never vocalized.

We hear the predictions and give ear to the doomsayers.

Yet our voices are never heard.

Do we have explicit trust in mankind?

Can we honestly say "I will stand mute in the face of my future"?

Does the future generate the predictions?

Or do the predictions generate the future?

Now is the time and here is the place.

Stand tall and let your voice carry across time.

We must stand strong in our individual convictions,

We must ensure that our own hands shape our destinies,

Not the hands of those who can speak the loudest.

-Margi C.

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