The Pool -- Lawrence Andrew Cade
The future is the present, if we but knew it;
For to experience a moment in your delicate existence,
Be not afraid to submerge to a depth
Only to surface with the wisdom of both grief and gladness.
For the quality of life compares not to the gift of life itself.
(International Poetry Hall of Fame. http://poetry.com/poets/LawrenceAndrewCade.html [Online] Wed 20 Apr 2005)