the future

the future never
arrived.
the promises of
youth
dashed and faded
in comic
books
and fiction.
movies of what
could be, that never
was.
everything was
to be silver
and smart.
the pain all gone.
famines
erased.
cold water
and blue seas
for everyone.
blood seeped
no more
into foreign
soil.
how little has
changed
that we can see.
the future not
being what it
used to be.