Heritage - The Kindred

He who cannot draw upon three thousand years

Is living from hand to mouth

If there is wisdom

Let’s hope to find it here

Come to know

All thoughts advance

Era to era

And so if

You wish to understand

Modern process

Look behind and witness

Conception

Now stand on the shoulders of history’s tallest thinkers

See that their height

Is borrowed from predecessors

And even the worst ideas

Can spur better conceptions

Pushing

Humankind

Along

An evolutionary

Rite of passage

Take a look and come to know

All thoughts advance

Era to era

And so if

You wish to understand

Modern process

Look behind and witness

Conception and progress

We’ll be tomorrow’s

Heritage

The giants of advancing thought

But if only

We respect

The statuesque preceding

Let’s be tomorrow’s

Heritage

The giants of advancing thought

Let us respect

The work of

The statuesque preceding