This Poem was Submitted By: Rick Barnes On Date: 2001-05-02 14:56:53 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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He asked her, "Do you really think you can save a world on the brink of destruction, with a song? You are fighting a sea of wrong, and armed with just your innocence you'll no more make a difference in the final outcome of things than a songbird does as she sings." She said, "I don't presume to know how to save the world, and so, my alternative seems to be to keep the world from changing me. If a tidal wave be at hand and I am armed with grains of sand, I'll hurl them forth with all my might and know while drowning I was right." I listened to this terse exchange and felt it represent the range of feelings I have held life long, each no more right than they are wrong.

Copyright © May 2001 Rick Barnes


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