(Preface: TEDxSingapore's sixth idea event featuring live local speakers and music artistes and screening of TEDxChange was held in Microsoft auditorium, high above Singapore city with a grand view of F1 cars running around the Formula One Grand Prix track, and inspired this poem.)

 

 

 

O u r   G r a n d e s t   G r a n d   P r i x

 

 

 

IT'S A TRULY EXCITING DAY, 

 

extraordinary, in every way

The Formula One Grand Prix

 

right outside the window

 

of today’s TEDxChange event.

 

 

Outside, cars are racing fast. 

 

Our world’s racing fast. 

 

After all,

 

WE ARE THE HUMAN RACE.

 

Hungry for speed

 

Hungry to get ahead

Hungry to win!

 

 ____

 

Yes, everywhere too

 

there's millions and millions

 

of us hungry

 

...for just something to eat each day.

 

....for a cup of clean water to drink.

 

...for children not to die.

 

_____

 

So, let

 

us

 

 pause.

 

Let us think: 

"Who are we leaving behind in our human race?"  

 

 ______

 

Outside, cars are racing,

 

F1 drivers changing gears.

 

Inside our heads, let us remember:

 

  We are drivers of our future.     

 

What gears shall we change?  

 

What change shall we bring?

 

______

 

Outside, cars are racing.  

 

Inside, our hearts are racing,

 

racing, racing

 

WITH EXCITEMENT

 

because there are people

 

all around us,

 

all around our planet,  

 

 with ideas in their heads

 

 with passion in their hearts

 

for the future we will make!

 

It's our grandest Grand Prix.

 

TRULY EXCITING!

 

 

______________

 

(written by Dave Lim, Curator, TEDxSingapore during global TEDxChange week.)

 

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