Great Minds of the Past

Honor those great minds of the past,
Their work, ideas and books
Will last... and last...,
They gave their dreams and creations
To many succeeding nations,
While most of these lands
And their talented
Thinkers are long gone,
Their work lives on and on,
From those who wrote
The cuneiform tablets
For the ancient Sumerians
To the hieroglyphics for Egyptians,
From those who created
The Bible long ago
To Aristotle, Socrates and Plato,
Those fabulous Greeks
Who we still study and learn to know,
From the Romans, Lucretius and Cicero,
To the Renaissance
With Leonardo Da Vinci, Chaucer,
Shakespeare and Galileo,
Till relatively modern times
With Freud, Einstein, Shaw,
Joyce, Hemingway
And so many other greats
Who carved humanity's way
Whose dreams will forever
With succeeding generations stay...

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2008 Alfred Charasz