IN THE END
David P. Sterner
How will they live once
they’ve all returned
with tales of the dead
and villages burned?
Will they proudly speak
of how bravely they fought
or now live in shame and
wish they had not?
Will they think that a favor
they’ve done for our world
that on mothers and babes
tons of bombs they have hurled?
Or will they then see the evil
in this deed they have done
and fear that from God
their souls will be shunned?
How will they live once
they’ve all returned
with those shiny cold metals
that so proudly, they’ve earned?
David Sterner
I was born in the small town of Grants Pass, Oregon. I have attended 22 different schools in Oregon, Montana, and Northern California—including PCC—which all exposed me to various cultures. My passions are art and science. I express my inner feelings by drawing, painting, sculpting, and writing. I study science to understand life and emotions, which I find very intriguing. Some of my achievements include winning blue ribbons for my artworks, being the lead singer of the Dave Everest Band, and receiving U.S. Patent #4,572,622 for a photographic lens. I have also authored a book titled DOR: The Missing Geometric Link. My hobbies include rock and fossil hunting, and I am proud to own the largest carnelian agate ever to be discovered in the Vernonia, Oregon region: it weighs a whopping 65 lbs.