What Comes To Change Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

Many who can not accept,
The effect change has on progress made.
Are the same people heard,
Making claims...
That a moving forward,
Would be easier done to do...
If renovating the past,
With an updated look of it...
Should be enough to satisfy,
Those seeking progress.
To approve the view of it to see.
Without taking unnecessary risks,
Of a moving forward not to know...
What comes to them,
No one before has yet to experience.
Or can guarantee the comfort of it,
For them will exist.

"Moving forward is progress to make.
And taking risks,
Not before to have experienced.
Like a leaving behind,
That which had existed."

-But...
What should we expect,
From that which had not before existed? -

"Maybe,
Adapting to adjust.
Like the generations before us.
Or...
Be ignored."

-I rather have things to stay the way they are.-

"You're not alone.
And that is why the young folks of today,
Have begun to move forward.
Caring less about the past.
Or those who have aged.
To leave them reminiscing,
What has gone on their own.
To die off.
Rot.
To then become just dust."

-Geeessshhh.
Why so negative? -

"Negative?
That's life.
No one from a bud to bloom,
Radiates that youthful glow forever.
Even those who moisturize,
Can not apply enough of it...
To stop what comes to change."