Before Disaster<br />By Yvor Winters<br /><br />Evening traffic homeward burns<br />Swift and even on the turns,<br />Drifting weight in triple rows,<br />Fixed relation and repose.<br />This one edges out and by,<br />Inch by inch with steady eye.<br />But should error be increased,<br />Mass and moment are released;<br />Matter loosens, flooding blind,<br />Levels drivers to its kind.<br />Ranks of nations thus descend,<br />Watchful to a stormy end.<br />By a moment's calm beguiled,<br />I have got a wife and child.<br />Fool and scoundrel guide the State.<br />Peace is whore to Greed and Hate. <br />Nowhere may I turn to flee:<br />Action is security.<br />Treading change with savage heel,<br />We must live or die by steel.<br />...<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sejWlc40uQM" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sejWlc40uQM</a>