The New Century.

For years they believed.
And finally, seeing was believing.
He couldn't time travel to see it
in its heyday. He wished he could.
But he took a mental picture.
Because, someday, someone like him or her
will look back — a century from now
and wonder what those nights
must have been like.
2012.
It was a different world back then.
They had cars on wheels.
And computers.
And the first black president.
And only men and women could marry.
And everyone thought the world
would end in December, because of
an ancient Mayan calendar.
But it was only the beginning.
The new century, the 2000s,
was still in its infancy.
For years before they feared how
art would survive through the
next decade.
But there were no more 'next decades'
It was a new century.
A glistening century.
A time a change.
There were still 88 years left.
Those nights were magic.
Many thought the era in which people
went to theaters died with the last century.
But it didn't.
It was alive.
And it was only the beginning.