Decisions Poem by Barry Middleton

decisions have to be made
to go forward or backward
or sit in the shade

to retreat is return to the dark
to an age that was bleak
and empty and stark

the shade only shelters your eyes
if we surrender our vision
we let tyrants arise

so never give in to the fear
for peace cannot follow
when tyrants appear

there is really but one simple choice
to go ever forward
and raise a loud voice

for the future requires we advance
if we take the right path
then the world has a chance