"At The Threshold Of Tomorrow"


"At The Threshold Of Tomorrow"
by Becky Jo Minsky (aka. Hull)
copyright 1990

Through the Desert of Despair, 
I have often WONDERED as I WANDERED . . .
About the Beauty and the Ugliness I SEE everywhere I go.
About all the Joys and Sorrows I've experienced in My Travels.
I THINK and then I SIGH.
 About how most people rarely KNOW . . .
Just how much that what we DO and THINK 
AFFECTS the World At Large.
How often we can CHANGE things for the BETTER
If we will only TRY.
Yes, some CHANGES are only temporary, 
Ephemeral at best . . . 
Like a pebble tossed into a pool,  depending on the size . . .
Making RIPPLES on the surface ever larger
Till they reach the other side, 
Maybe bouncing back a few more times until ALL is as it was Before. 
Like a SHOUT into a canyon, 
The VIBRANT ECHOES keep on going for awhile . . 
But then eventually they all FADE.
Like welcome clouds that block the blazing sun, 
Sooner or later they all drift away.
Like Our Footprints on the Sands Of Time, 
The Winds Of Change will gradually ERASE
All TRACES of our PASSING BY.
So what's the point you say?
A hundred years from NOW will it MATTER anyway?

SOMETIMES . . . 
THE CHANGES THAT WE MAKE CAN CHANGE OUR LIVES FOREVER.
Along with Those we HOLD Most Dear,
Even Strangers we've never met and may never ever KNOW. 
But whether its for GOOD or Ill,
DEPENDS entirely on you . . .
Just HOW MUCH is based upon what we CHOOSE to DO, 
WHY we CHOOSE to DO "IT" and HOW we see it through.
So CHOOSE, CHOOSE, CHOOSE NOW
For the BETTER, 
NOT the Worse.
Before you pass beyond the Threshold of Tomorrow
Take the time to DO things RIGHT.
CHERISH what is GOOD in Life and TRY TO KEEP THE PEACE.
DONT MAKE TROUBLE,
DONT TELL VICIOUS LIES 
DONT CAUSE STRIFE.
PROTECT the INNOCENTS who TRUST IN YOU TO TRANSFORM
A Wasteland of Broken Promises and Shattered Dreams
INTO A GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS.
HAVE FAITH in Those you LOVE SO WELL.
CREATE BEAUTY WHENEVER YOU CAN.
Leave a LEGACY of "Flowers In Your Footprints" . . . 
PRECIOUS SEEDS of What Will Be
Not RUBBISH MADE from Hatred, Apathy and Selfish Greed.

Don't make the Ones Who FOLLOW you
In Generations To Come After
CLEAN UP Your Dirty Mess.
Wouldn't it be BETTER if instead of Your Name they all CURSE, 
INSTEAD . . .
Your Memory They ALL BLESS?
Thats how I want Them to REMEMBER ME.
That even as I TRAVELLED on My Path, 
No matter where I went . . .
No matter how HARD the JOURNEY got,  . . . 
I still took the Time and with GREAT CARE,
I SOWED MY PRECIOUS FLOWERS OF HOPE
For ALL the Ones Who Follow After Me to SEE . . .
MY SPECIAL LEGACY FOR ALL HUMANITY.

Becky Jo Minsky (aka. Hull)
29 September 2010

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