Book Terrors...! V: Deep Survival

As long as a thing is possible,
it lasts forever; there is no
such thing as extinction
for creativity, for what
the human mind
is capable of.

This is why I must scoff
at the traditional beliefs
that continue to suggest
that what we have can
be lost, because it's
not in what we have
but what we can do
where our greatest
treasures lie.

As hard as it is to believe,
all that we have now is
not even the beginning
of a pinnacle of
human civilization,
because that pinnacle
is in our minds.

I am not a pessimist.

I am a sorry realist,
an unfortunate dreamer
of impossible things,
forever restless,
unsatisfied with
what I see around me,
because all I see
is potential.

It makes me somewhat surly,
but I would rather be that
than to accept things
and settle for what's easy.

If I were a recent movie,
I would be The Imaginarium
of Doctor Parnassus, and I
am always fighting Mr. Nick.

That's why I believe in war,
because only in destruction
can new things be made,
and it is in a million little
battles every day that
all things are achieved.

If we stopped
just for one second
to acknowledge that,

we might have the beginnings
of true wisdom among us.