All Before Us
I shall be performing this poem tonight as part of my presentation; Adrian Spendlow, Spiritualist, survivor, poet, storyteller and blogger presents his life journey with the title – I Don’t Know.
All Before Us
Just think of all the lives that have lived before us
So many souls who have walked this way
What I wouldn’t give to see all their pathways
Yes how I’d hope to inherit their happiness
It is good I suppose to not feel all their sufferings
Let’s just hope we don’t repeat all they’re mistakes
We owe them a debt I reckon to walk somehow taller
Straighter yes and prouder through all that heritage
Oh walk us life, down a path, deep trod with experience
Feel the past’s arms supporting us and pointing ways
Our instinctual kindred learnt so much through their struggles
Perhaps some of that knowledge is tied up inside of us
Enough to know not to trample other folk for our gain
Millions have live and died with their eyes on the future
Their hopes cried aloud to all that would listen
Not just for themselves, or their own, but us all
We hear you our kindred, our families, our truth
We take what you offer foundations, our roots
So many that have lived and died stand before us
So many souls that once walked are still with us
Let us step through their visions with their will to survive
Then maybe together we might dare say,
‘We’ve arrived’
….Adrian Spendlow
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