To Learn

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He'd journey to the future

never to return.

A one way trip with just enough

rocket fuel to burn.

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He'd leave tomorrow

never to again see present day,

for he knew he'd value more

the things he'd learn along the way.

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He packed his bags and steeled

himself to leave his life behind.

This decision had been made

because the world had been unkind.

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The world refused to feed

his need to understand it more,

so he searched and scanned and worked

to find this time-travel back door.

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Before he left, she held his hand

and begged him not to go.

But now the deed was done,

and he had nothing left to show.

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He thought he'd find a world

of beauty, flying cars and robots,

with more to learn than one man

could have wished, to know hard-fought.

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Instead, the future world

had been destroyed by hand of man.

A world of beauty like he'd hoped

was turned from stone to sand.

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And now right here, he stood alone,

nothing to understand.

The need to learn unanswered,

how he wished he took her hand.

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