Textbook Thrown

Most people try to move forward while looking back...
Planning for the future by taking a history class.
The textbook focuses on results, on resolution,
Yet the present is all about evolution.
Is it not time for a revolution?
Let's throw away our textbook.
History says this, history says that.
History speaks of nothing new,
Only old facts that may no longer be true.
What if this is unprecedented?
What if we stumble upon something great?
Would it defy old constructs,
If a new edifice is what we desire to create?
Memories can become monuments,
And scars can become relics...
All built by the hands of time.
How could we ever build something new,
If the textbook fills your hands and mine?
Let's throw it away.
We don't need to look anywhere but up.
Dream amongst the stars,
Since we can do anything with faith, work, and a little luck.
Our only goal is to consistently find gold...
To cultivate what we have within,
To remind each other of what keeps our hearts on hold.
That's the kind of love that resonates in the soul.
We can build toward that level...
Strive for the highest heights.
And if it feels so right,
Then it doesn't matter if history says it's wrong.
That's why we're throwing the textbook away;
To write a story of our own.

-A. Lewis