Our character is taking shape.
Year after year and century after century,
We are slowly leaving our youth as a nation.
We are funny, angry, lonely, social,
Skeptical and eternally optimistic.
It's a burden, democracy,
A burden of ideals.
To fail at every ideal
Is a better life than to succeed at greed.
To have disappointment is also to have had hope
To be disappointed again and again,
Is to be stubbornly hopeful.
Scarred, sad and hopeful,
We advance.
Copyright L. Kochman, January 20, 2017 @ 10:16 p.m.
