Hello everyone! Today I, 
It is, first and foremost, my post today for Steemit and my followers. That said, it also happens to be my entry to the Steemit Poetry Contest #12; this iteration's theme is "Future." I chose to write about the future I see for our decentralised society we are building together, with cryptography and blockchain technology. I hope you enjoy it.
This is my first contest entry on Steemit. The meter is pretty fast here, so I took artistic licence with the "quatrain" requirement. You will find that it would work in four-line stanzas if I rendered it that way. I played with this back and forth but I really feel it works best the way it is. I will post the three-quatrain version in the comments in case it is required.
Composite my own, of two images from pixabay
Vires in Numeris
Tomorrow, with luck, we shall all tell a tale
of a bear and a bull
and a fish and a whale
and a cat and a mouse:
how the old ones devised
to unravel our tracks
and defeat our disguise;
how their efforts had ended in vain.
Tomorrow, with hope, we shall all stand as one
giving freely to others;
no man with a gun
shall point it at us
and demand compensation
to rob and to rape
all the weak of our nations--
or natural-born rights to constrain.
Tomorrow, with triumph, we all shall declare
o'er the waves of the seas
and the waves in the air:
"Code is Law; Strength in Numbers!"
a people divorced
from unchecked central power
delivered by force,
though nary a bureaucrat slain. 🍋
How to get an upvote from me today: Do you like my poem? Hate it? Share my dream? Think I'm a nutjob? All comments are welcome!