Welcome to today
A toxic wasteland
Once upon a time, beautiful skies now covered in thick layers of smog
Politicians waxing poetic about illegal aliens, poverty and guns
People lining up with arms outstretched hoping to get a handful of something
Plastic celebrities famous for nothing more than their celebdom, and no one will care in a hundred years
Youth huddled in groups with silence stretched out between them the only sound the tap tap tapping of their fingers on their phones
Children losing their chance at an idyllic childhood to YouTube or Snapchat or or or
Crying babies born brought into a world that gives them no other choice but to cry from the beginning
Adults consumed with the need to consume more of everything
The elderly forgotten and dismissed as foolish because they don’t know how to exist in this crazy messed up universe we’ve created
People all around walking so aimlessly, more intrigued with their handheld devices than the meteor showers of chaos happening all around them
Roads and lanes and cities and towns bursting at the seams with people and need and urgency for hope
Losing sight of what’s important
Even with reminders from the enlightened that we’re destroying the earth, humanity, kindness and losing everything pure in this world
Put down your phone
Look around
Blink
And
Before you know it
It’s already gone
And
You can’t remember a time
Before
Cutting, and so very true. When you can really take a step back & see things for what they are (which is easier said than done when the world absorbs us and things ‘just are’) so much seems so stupid, so unimportant in the grand scheme of things. It’s an odd world, for sure.
Great piece! x
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Thank you Caz!!!
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Love this poem. Awesomeness.
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Thank you!
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You’re welcome. ☺
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Yep. That sums it up to a T
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👍🏼
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Oh my goodness this was SO POWERFUL and sadly SO true!!!! I agree 100% with what Steve said, this completely sums up T (which I assume is Trump). This man is destroying this country little by little every day!!! Everything you wrote is what stays on my mind daily and really brings me SO much sadness and real fear of what will be next on the agenda of T
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Thank you!
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My pleasure sweetie!! Keep up with the amazing writing, I really LOVE reading it!
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