A child sees a picture
Of the future on the wall
A person dying slowly
Not a peaceful world at all

We can not fill up our part
If you don't make time last
An empty head's a perfect trap
And soon you'll hear the blast

It's all violence and killer rage
We let our future melt
So we turn our hearts to it
That way we miss the blast we felt

You can't see the signs
That are flashing in your eyes
Close your life and your past
To what's happening and who dies

Soon it will be dark and black
Not a single life at all
We can't let it race right by
Read the future on the wall


written 3/16/98