New Poem

Its been a long time since I blog. Have been busy with my new job and Soka Activites. Have been fulfilling this few months though as i have just finished organzing the FD 14th Anniversary. More work to be done towards the end of 2008.
Anyway i stumble upon an excellant poem that i like it very much.

An old man going a lone highway
Came at evening, cold and gray,
To a chasm vast and wide and steep,
With waters rolling cold and deep.
The old man crossed in the twilight dim,
The sullen stream held no fears for him;
But he turned when safe on the other side,
And built a bridge to span the tide.
"Old man," said a fellow pilgrim near,
"You are wasting your strength with building here."
"Your journey will end with the ending day,
"You never again will pass this way.
"You’ve crossed the chasm, deep and wide.
Why build you this bridge at eventide?"
The builder lifted his old gray head.
"Good friend, in the path I have come," he said,
"There followeth after me today
A Youth whose feet must pass this way."
"The chasm that was as nought to me
To that fair-haired youth might a pitfall be;
"He, too, must cross in twilight dim –
"Good friend, I am building this bridge for him."

Will Allen Dromgoole