Thesis
Antithesis
Synthesis

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It is time
when change,
a young person’s game,
is forced on us all.
The abyss opens
old men fall, whimpering,
begging for mercy who gave none.
Wise women, who birthed cultures,
step to the edge but cannot stay their feet.
Poets forget words and dreams
resort to formulaic constructions
as if rhyme or meter mattered a whit
in making a new world.

We are lost in a sea of change
who did not read the signs before us
telling of the surging wave
swelling from deep tremors
conspiring with the worlds winds above
to tell us that we had lost our way.

Our Noah awaits us
in a boat too small
a sea too big
without oars, rudder, or mast.

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Portland, Oregon – March 30, 2016

The “Hegelian Dialectic” expressed above as “thesis, antithesis, synthesis,” is taken from Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel who introduced a system for understanding the history of philosophy and the world itself, often called a “dialectic”: a progression in which each successive movement emerges as a solution to the contradictions inherent in the preceding movement.

Source at:
http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/philosophy/history/hegel_philosophy_history.html