TO ALL THE HEROES

we live our lives as though we were in charge though we know that's not true ... the truth is it's a bargain to keep the number down ... to start with we have to give a third away or if you're a little hyper a fourth to sleep and whatever kind of thinking we get into there ... the rest of the day we're not so much in charge as in conference ... there's a lot of important things going on if only a foot or two in front of us ... we're very busy but we're never alone ... not even in our thoughts ... around the table our thoughts sit with us powerful witnesses ... a community as yet in dissent ... well then who then must be the one to speak with one voice ... that's when we're in charge ... or so it's said we are ... take a point at that point to turn around and look again at the table ... now consider if you will what original thought you brought to that meeting of minds ... think of all those in your life who have sat at that table ... and don't forget the scribes who translate them to you even as we speak ... the clerks of memory and language you so often take for granted ... now to those of you who can turn around again and simply take charge of things I say how intelligent to know who you are