geography is history

where the place is not the people what's seen
beyond the moment where sight can connect
a momentary gathering of cause or effect
those who are to come and who have been
the ones who come from the locales between
will in their proper time choose or reject
the answers that are given what we reflect
is all the colours spread from red to green
emotion or inaction what we've been told
is that we matter but that each alone
is not important that at least we'll give
all of our purpose to turn lead to gold
and when we've learned we're wrong atone
but then what reason would we have to live