The Sleeping Generation

Wednesday, February 7, 1996 - 11:00

Those who came before us Forgot their mission — Dropped the torch, And while they were asleep Darkness clothed itself as light And again stole through the doors. As the children of those times Is it not we — Who, opening our eyes, Must surely learn to see And, stumbling — Awake to seize the prize? ... Alex Middleton

From GLW issue 218