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IF YOU COULD, SOMEHOW, SEND A MESSAGE TO SOMEONE WHO WILL BE ALIVE ONE THOUSAND YEARS FROM NOW: WHAT WOULD YOU TELL THEM?\n\xa0\nThe universe has come together to create the unique and special life form that you are, with your hopes and fears, dreams and concerns.\xa0 The thoughts you form and the words you write and say constitute information, never to be duplicated information born of your mind that goes out into the world and has the potential, however remote the possibility, to outlive you and be shared with far future generations of people. \n\xa0\nIf you had the opportunity to send a message to someone in the year 3011, what would you say?\xa0 Would you tell them about yourself and your life?\xa0 Would you warn them about the dangers of hurting the environment or plead with them not to go to war?\xa0 Would you talk about love and joy, sadness and pain, life and death?\n\xa0\nAnd if somehow you were granted this chance to speak to someone in the future, how would you get your point across?\n\xa0\nI think the answer is obvious: poetry.\xa0 Poetry is a universal means of communication.\xa0 \n\xa0\n\u201cPoetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted\u201d, wrote the English Romantic Poet Percy Bysshe (Bish) Shelley.\xa0 \n\xa0\n\u201cPoetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.\u201d Wrote the American poet Carl Sandburg.\n\xa0\nAnd Plato wrote that \u201cPoetry is nearer to vital truth than history\u201d.\xa0\n\xa0\nIt\u2019s poetry, I tell you, that would get your message across the expanse of time.\xa0 It\u2019s poetry that would most effectively allow you to speak from your heart and mind to a person who lived in a time where everything we know has changed.\n\xa0\nYou really need to consider what you\u2019re going to say to future fellow runners\u2026because this dawn of New Media and Social Networking is making these opportunities possible. \n\xa0\nAlthough currently in it\u2019s infancy, the infrastructure that is being assembled today will allow you to speak to your great, great, great, great grandchildren and to those of ages to come: and with that opportunity comes a responsibility to speak the truth and pass your information along\u2026because there will never be another living creature like you in this universe again: and now is the time for your poetry.\nPoetry is all about emotion and passion.\xa0 It\u2019s this quality of the message that gets passed on through the ages and gives us that opportunity not only to speak to future generations: but to do so in a voice they\u2019ll understand; for as long as there are human beings to read and understand the words of others, there will be poetry to pass along to common sentiment.\xa0 \nLife and death, joy and sadness, passion and ennui.\xa0 These are the same feelings and emotions that human beings have shared since our species first began to walk the planet, and until the great technological singularity to come changes the way we might associate the human condition with past and future generations of beings: we\u2019ll have poetry as a way of reaching each other through time and space.\nSpecial thanks to my friends who took the time to read some great poems: \n\xa0\nToni Harvey - \nKevin Gwin - \nMaddy Hubbard: \nAdam Tinkoff: \nGordon Scott: \n\xa0\n\nLINKS:\n\nPlease support The Mojo Loco Fund: \n\xa0\nThe song \u201cPretty Colored Lights\u201d written, produced and performed by an amazing musical artist and poet: Warren Lain, from San Francisco, off his new CD: Phonofield. Check out this amazing artist and teacher at