Caesar asked his friends

        romans and countrymen

           to lend him their ears.


         I have no such request,

          because Shakespeare

         said neither a borrower

               nor a lender be.


       Yet, the bible sayeth that

     he who giveth shall receive.


     It also states that the meek

          shall inherit the earth.


  So, is it serendipity or stupidity

    fate or contrived coincidence,

      that I have been tasked to

      restore a listed 1887 semi

       derelict schoolhouse and

             save it from ruin?


                  History and

          our vernacular is in a

     state of peril, but together

   we can induce a renaissance

for its posterity to inhabit the land.


Ask not what your country can do

for your national treasures, but what

can you and I and we them and those

do to save the inheritance of our past.