Horizon Event

What’s over there, on the distant shore, 

shrouded in a mist of future uncertainty, 

dark, mysterious, waiting to be  

discovered, should we choose to explore?  

Some say it’s best to stay where you are, 

safely stored in your present-day harbor, 

to deny the persistently possible horror, 

turning away all assistance from afar.  

But the future becomes present anyway, 

no matter the wall we build at the border; 

better to meet it head-on now, in order 

to deal with whatever it brings some day.