Tribute Poem to the NSA 2010 theme “Imagine”
Imagine
Imagine a world where speakers were no longer needed
Where corporate revenues were all exceeded
Negative thought processes all defeated
A world where our clients all lived in the black
All children reading on grade level, no child left back
All starfish having a difference made in their lives
Humorists making us all laugh just for fun and not for our own salvation
Imagine
Imagine a world where the words you uttered
Led to
1 less hate crime
2 fewer sexist sentiments sputtered
3 fewer racist remarks
4 fewer anti-Semites
5 fewer forgotten infants because of our insight
Imagine
Imagine a world where Lenora’s lectures attained the appreciation for diversity we so crave
Where Patricia Fripp’s elegance was the law of the day
Where Brendon Burchard showed us all how to have meaning in our lives
And our spouses supported all we do like van Hooser’s wife
Imagine
Well I submit to you that the day will come when what we imagine will be a reality
Because we speakers walk this planet
With the spirit of Robert, Cavett
Living to serve humanity in the humblest of ways
We move forward for we believe we can birth a better day
So we’ve charged ourselves with bringing hope to the world
Speaking words that’ll make a president out of that fearful fifth grade girl
Creating presentations that show corporations
To incorporate the environment in their work like Tim Sanders
We grow forward showing the world the glass is half full
Because Charlie tremendously reminded us that it doesn’t work unless you work it
So we work harder everyday to make our imagination a reality
Until our cup runeth over to all of humanity
We must always go forward with that Ziglar “Gosh” attitude
That Les Brown latitude that Jana Stanfield gratitude
For we are the fearless
And when it comes to the size of our hope we are peerless
So speakers of the world let’s indeed come together
And continue to show the world that if we believe it
The whole planet will see it
Deep down in your gut I know that you feel it
You feel that if we think it, we will
be
it
If we just…imagine