10 years on

Papa said: we will never be the same.

I tried to understand

Absolute State Changes

To wrap my head around

a future that would never resemble the past.

'we will not falter we will not fail.'

except we did falter

we did fail

our innocence drowned

between two great oceans

did we 'export enough hope and optimism?'

now....dim dim dim as we look in

Trillions for a hornet's nest in Iraq

for 3,000 americans - more than that, now, gone

Unity temporarily achieved - heros in fire-proof yellow

Commerce-shopping gained; then that shuttering Crisis

our own Reserve becoming an Enemy causing a Meltdown

Fiscal shudders overseas sweat barely remembered

As children watch their mothers

standin beneath unemployment signs

Outlined by an Eastern light from behind that old Rising Sun

but the light is chilly: we fear the Dragon who feeds us.

a new world, a new world.

Arab's bright spring flowers

stuck into the guns of those strict Regimes

a new world - a new world.

do not miscalculate the 'ultimate result'

they say

but what is ultimate

and what is the result

10 years of war? 30?

a generation - gone?

a warming world that will never change

back again?

a new world, a new world.

And the changin'

its only just begun.