Mai Is Well Aware She Is the Future

A psychological poem for Mai about how her identity is shaped by her generation.

Mai is well aware she is the future
And much depends upon who she becomes.
If someone took her generation's picture,
Mai knows its beauty would be everyone's.
One is rooted deeply in one's time,
New source of seed and leafmeal for the soil,
The graceful iteration of a rhyme,
Equally a prototype and foil.
Clearly, what each does induces all
Alike to turn, to model, and to change.
Remember that as one we rise and fall,
Lest pride our hearts from our shared selves estrange.
Our choices, all of them, confused or clear,
Sustain a common moral ecosphere.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Audio and Video Music: No.1 A Minor Waltz. By Esther Abrami. Music free to use at YouTube. Illustration Credit: AI

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