ONLY A FOOL SHOULD KNOW

  Cyril Paul, July 2001

Been sailing through the Heartland

On a city set on wheels

Up hills, down dales, through country trails

On the hunt for impossible dreams

The strength of one, though many

Kept the vision fresh and true

And the courage of the wheelers

Filled our hearts with something new.

This tide of fifteen hundred

Overflowed our rivers of pride

The stalwart and the broken

Watch them riding side by side

And the cheers could fill cathedrals

As large as old Times Square

If you stood many miles away

You could hear those thousands cheer.

That crimson tide of wheelers

With miles of wheel on wheel

Rode slowly in the sunlight

Down the boulevard with cheers and tears unveiled

There’s a secret in the mission

Seems a new era has just begun

It is quietly being told to everyone

Simply good to be human

An act of faith to be kind

Bind humans and kindness together

Transform the whole world to one mind.