Poem: There Were Simple Reasons to Believe

There Were Simple Reasons to Believe

to trust it would be true,
examples to point towards:
those who came before
who had been ushered forward,
who had taken this same path,
trusted the same guidance,
and were now fulfilled.
The choices made
were made with clarity,
with a certainty,
with confidence
in the possibilities,
in what was to come.
It was all reasonable.
It had to be,
it was not a small matter,
the all that followed
would flow forth in accord
to this course.
Now, though,
now that it is later
and so much
did not come to be,
so much of what was said
was only words
and never deeds,

now, what is to be done?
There is not a way back,
and there is no way forward,
no way to be free of the current,
no way to go forward,
though to stay here 
is to drown.