From when I was asleep,
a partial dream I keep
about the issues there were
regarding the length of the bridge
that we were building
across the ravine.
I thought it should be longer, stronger;
and the other wanted it to just reach.
I said it would be okay
during the day;
but, when the night fell,
so would the bridge.
I was asked what did I mean:
and I replied, ‘that if the bridge
only just reached this side,
and only just reached the other side,
when night fell and everything contracted
from the length it had reached
when to the Sun it had reacted,
the end on one side,
and the end on the other side
would decide to let go
and fall into the ravine
down to the river below.’
I was laughed at;
until, that very night,
I was, sadly, proven right.
Graeme Sandford 