Bold Vision

“Future City”
Painting by Osnat
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tomorrows cut sharp
in relief of hard stone
the dense matrix
of deep possibilities

eyesight as keen
as new chisels cold
case-hardened tools
of incisive strong minds

bringing shapes from
the mass carving
competent clarities
fine points of purpose

a farsighted foresight
distinguishing trait
marking genuine
capable leadership

such were our founders
whose lights showed
a world-changing future
belonged to the willing

a future now past
pissed away by a
populist thanklessness
governed by boors