In today's beautiful poem posted on this blog, "Little Star: Week 8," the speaker--a father-to-be--addresses his child-to-be. In his very famous poem, "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry," Walt Whitman addresses future generations who have yet to be born. (You can read the Whitman poem here.)
Too very different poems, with two speakers with very different reasons for speaking. But these two poems are similar in being heartbreaking/hopeful and gentle/powerful.
Speakers in poetry often speak directly to living people, as well as people from the past. Fewer poems look ahead in this respect.
If you are writing from this prompt, address your piece to someone (or a group of people) who are not people yet. If you would like to use the form of a letter/letters, such as Alice Walker does in her novel, The Color Purple, do so! This is also a type of poetry, and in all writing it is called epistolary.
If you are creating visual art, create an image of something you wish for the future in some way.
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