[jedrider]

Letter to the Future:

You're not here, because of us!

[RepublicanfromEngland]

I think the letter idea was pointless, human nature is what it is, the alternative is control, limiting what we have, consume, and for those out there with a family, how many. Family is just another welfare goal.

If none us can depend on society that like family, then what is there, not much. It doesn't make it right, but people's selfish choices, are just their survival, we all know that here.

[onlooker]

1we did not anticipate you, you bright ones
2though some of us saw you kneeling behind our bombs,
3we did not fervently grow towards you
4for most of us grew backwards
5sowing our seed in the black field of history
6avoid monuments, engrave our names beneath your own
7for you have consumed our ashes by now
8for you have one quiet mighty language by now
9do not excavate our cities
10to catalogue the objects of our doom
11but burn all you find to make yourselves room,
12you have no need of archaeology,
13your faces are your total history
14for us it was necessary to invent a darkness,
15to subtract light in order to see,
16for us it was certain death to know our names
17as they were written in the black books of history
18I stand with an animal at my left hand
19and a warm, breathing ghost at my right
20saying, Remember that this letter was made
21for you to burn, that its meaning lies
22only in your burning it,
23that its lines await your cleansing fire--
24understand it only insofar
25as that warm ghost at my right hand breathed
26down my blood and for a moment wrote the lines
27while guns sounded from a mythical city
28and destroyed the times