The World We Live Today

The World We Live Today 

A poem reflecting the state of the world...

A grim world,

A shackled one.

A dream curled,

Back where it came from.

A desperate need

Treated in haste,

A thoughtful deed,

Gone to waste.

Changing attitude

Of men and women

Gone is the gratitude

Of “stepping in the shoes of them”.

Doomsday nears,

Apocalyptic fears,

Trudging tears,

No lending ears.

Voices unheard,

Actions flunked.

Leaders stammer,

On decisions to come.

We panic at our dire state,

One never thought this was our fate.

Our destiny, so disheartening

No fuel of optimism,

Our situation, so frightening,

With radical ideas of nationalism.

40,000 years of survival

Gone in the drain.

No second chance of revival,

It’s a miracle how we got ourselves into pain.

Doomsday nears,

Apocalyptic fears,

Trudging tears,

No lending ears.

No equal rights for the oppressed, colored, even gays

So sad, is the world we live today.