“The World War
After next
Will be fought
With bows and arrows”
“That’s my lad”
His Mam said
“He likes to
Think about things”
But I thought
I’d heard it before
Heinlein…? or
Asimov…? or Clarke…?
Shouldn’t have
Mentioned it though -
Proud parents
Need their pride
The next war
In our office
May be fought
In angry silence
Turned out
It was Einstein –
Though it’s only
Attributed
And possibly
Misquoted –
He talked of
“Sticks and stones”
Maybe he’d
Heard it somewhere?
Possibly from
This lad?
Time is relative
After all –
Maybe his thought
Came from the future?
Martin A W Holmes, Sept 2016
Brilliant bloke, Einstein, but I wish he's don't something with his hair!!
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