"At last!" he cried "You have arrived!" "I thought you'd never come" his smile belied the turmoil inside deeper than can be described
The journey began with a half drunken plan boasted and rejoiced the fact that they said we were out of our head gave credence that indeed we were right
We stayed up for days studying adventurous ways to bend the physics of time a place to begin and a place to win Oh! destinations divine
We studied old tomes divined lizard bones yet certainty did evade we struck out on our own a cold dusty road a bleak foreboding feeling
We were walking along when the object crashed down a short distance away we scrambled to see what could possibly be lying there in the field
A machine of strange purpose it turned out to be but what we just could not say the occupant was tossed and his life was lost out on that cold barren plain
We looked in the hatch of this very strange catch surveying a very strange scene and there on the wall strangest of all was a panel displaying this date
With a whoop and a roar we toasted each other it was just what we needed to find a machine that could bend space and time on their end Yes, I was going to ride
I strapped myself in and started twisting the dials not knowing what I was doing it started to hum I looked at my chum my grin I was unable to hide
I reached for the dial and gave it a swift turn not caring the destined date the vibration did rise blurring my eye's shaking my very senses
A flash and a bang and at once it all came to a lurching halting stop the vision out side brought fear to my pride quickly I switched back the date
Vibrations and dizzyness I sensed once again as through the veil I passed to land me back here white haired from the fear of a future so distant from here
I leapt from it that infernal machine and bade no one go near it must be destroyed oh how I cried smashing it with my bare hands
You asked what I seen in that futuristic scene that could blanch the life from my eyes the horror revealed would make a man squeal a tear rolled down my cheek
A desolate plain was all that remained of a civilization that we had attained but greed and deceit routed us in defeat destroying our very souls
I'll take a step back and try a new tack from this day going forth to lead by example and not be trampled standing for what is right.