Letter: Timely reflections on Robert Service’s ‘The Reckoning’

TO THE EDITOR: This is the second of two parts.

Could it be, Robert Service’s see;

Is a prophet’s warning,

To the woes we’re now mourning?

For tis you and me,

Whose been on this spending spree;

The likes of which few have known,

For tis our great wealth we have blown.

Is it yet our reckoning day,

That we find the courage to pay;

Or will we again pass it by,

With a wink and a sigh?

Will we continue to ignore a debt-ridden economy,

And where our flag waves over two wars of hegemony;

Will we divert our brain,

From concerns of self-gain?

Will we get up from our chair,

And turn off flat TV’s hypnotic glare;

Long enough to dig down deep,

Beneath decades of sleep?

As a person, as a state, as a nation,

Will we choose the road to economic salvation;

Or will we defer our debts to a future generation,

And justly deserve their damnation?

Poet Service’s fair warning,

Should move us beyond mourning;

To have the courage and will,

With God’s strength and wisdom to now

“Foot the bill.”

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