SOCIETY THINKS IT’S CLIMBING

Society thinks it's climbing
When it's really on a slide;
Its perspective is distorted, friend,
Its logic misapplied,
For instead of getting better,
The world is getting worse,
And what is viewed as progress
Is really the reverse.
Governments are in trouble;
There's no peace anywhere;
And it's hard to find a person
Who will take the time to care.
The rich are getting richer,
As it has always been,
And the poor man is forgotten,
His awful plight unseen.
The criminal's rights are uppermost
In the decisions of the courts,
While children terrorize the streets
And kill without remorse.
Computers take the jobs away
From those who want to work,
And the Information Highway
Will drive us all berserk.
Students rule the classrooms;
There's no discipline in schools,
And teachers, once respected,
Are made to look like fools.
Parents are not parents,
They just let their children run
And do whatever they want to do,
Except, perhaps, for some
Who realize the danger
Of an undisciplined child,
But parents, for the most part,
Just let their kids run wild,
And wonder how it happens
That the child turns out so bad,
Still looking for the discipline
That, from birth, it never had.
Women marry women,
And men with men the same,
And the world looks on approvingly,
Without a sense of shame
At such perverted lifestyles,
Such filth and degradation,
Ignoring the fact that Almighty God
Calls such things abomination.
It seems there's no commitment
To a marriage that's for life.
Women go from husband to husband,
And men from wife to wife
Or else each one has a "lover",
Is involved in an "affair"
That, instead of bringing happiness,
Brings sorrow and despair.
There's no regard for morals; -
They've all "gone by the board";
Nothing's private any more,
No evil thing's deplored,
Yet society thinks it's climbing,
When it's really on a slide;
Its perspective is distorted friend,
Its logic misapplied,
For what it thinks is progress
Is really its reverse,
For instead of getting better, friend,
This world is getting worse!



May 22, 1994


Copyright © 1994 by a. franklin staples