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- From: petersm@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU (Marguerite Petersen)
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- Subject: Terrans - a Repost
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- Date: 2 Jan 93 14:48:49 GMT
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- I wrote this poem exactly one year ago and posted it then so please
- forgive me if you have already seen it. And a Happy New Year to All!!!
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- TERRANS
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- The time is now upon us
- What time is that you say?
- The time I thought I'd never see
- Has somehow come our way.
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- From Kruschev's violent ravings
- With hardsoled shoe in hand
- To Yeltsin's smooth charisma
- And power to command.
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- I grew up with the fear
- Of imminent demise
- Not nameless monsters in the night
- Sure death lurked in the skies.
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- We'll bury you he said
- His fist a tightened ball
- I wondered at the words he used
- And then up went the "Wall".
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- A city was divided.
- Our world became as well
- And everyone just wondered when
- The world would go to hell.
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- Then suddenly it's gone.
- The wall no longer stands
- And quick as day does follow night
- There's change within those lands.
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- Can this be really true?
- Can I believe my eyes?
- The threat I've lived with all my life
- Just disappears and dies?
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- My hope is that it's real
- We'll truly get the chance
- To live together free of fear
- As Terrans to advance.
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- December 26, 1991
- Kathleen O'Toole
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- "Insufficient facts always invites danger, Captain."- Spock in Space Seed
- Marg Petersen petersm@jacobs.cs.orst.edu
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