Suspended in the New Fade, Part 15

destiny is an act of faith

living in the New Fade

complicates destiny

perhaps more than

any other period

in history

in times past

it was possible to know

exactly what you

were going to be

almost from the moment

you were born

of course it was with

dawning awareness

that you realized 

that your life had

limitations and that

altering your fate

would take a

monumental act of will

in the New Fade we

disguise that notion

as the American Dream

where anyone can do

anything they truly desire

the real trick is that

although this is certainly true

many, many people have

taken great pains to ensure

that it is still difficult

part of the reason is that

there are in fact

many, many people

in the world and many

of them are interested

in achieving the same thing

you are and so it's like

farming the same land

for too long and discovering

that you must rotate and

cooperate in order to yield

optimum results

the compensating method

for balancing ambition

in the New Fade

means that while everyone

can pursue their destiny

sometimes it takes longer

than you might have thought

a miserable suspension

few people are willing to

acknowledge talent

without an equal amount

of savvy and so you wait

and you wait until perhaps

everything works out

it's true that great talent

is seldom encouraged

in any age and is in fact

silently oppressed

too many voices have been

kept silent throughout history

only to be heard by later ears

what makes this such

an attractive impulse?

why do contemporaries

reject their native genius?

in the New Fade perhaps

it's easier to appreciate

this common phenomenon

but it's no easier to fix

we know everything

or so we think

and so we question 

everything too

it's the process of working

it all out where suspension

finally gives rise to progress

and we all cross another bridge