More Than Just Tracks of Steel is about legacy. Legacy used to be important, but most unfortunately, it seems to have fallen by the wayside. I think we need to reach into our closet crammed with the lost and forgotten and grab Legacy from next to the old bowling ball, dust it off and give it another look.

No matter what we do, we will leave a legacy. Without focusing on it, I doubt the one we leave will be the one we should.

I chose the image I did for this one because I believe we should learn from both the good and the bad from history. This image represents the good history of forefathers focusing on leaving a good legacy.

More Than Just Tracks of Steel

7.19.2010

Tracks of steel

Can’t see or feel

But the owners of

The hands that laid them could

 

But, could they see

How, over a century, we

Still see, and feel,

The tracks of steel

Laid cross the ties of wood

 

And could they feel

Their efforts yield

A means for us

To ride the steel

Across time

And well beyond just fields

 

With minds and bones intact

Had they sense of their impact

Or is hindsight the only way to see

The impact that it would have on we

Who can turn our backs

On the future to see

The tracks the past had laid

 

For hindsight sees

What foresight cannot

With the future in its way

And time will not cease

And tomorrow, today is not

No matter how many tracks we lay