FUTURE SHOCK! A POEM by DOUG GEMPEL

Future Shock

A poem by Douglas Gempel

July 7, 2013

We all have a future based on a clock,

For some of us it may become a shock,

As we sit and ponder,

In awe and wonder,

What may occur,

Is currently a blur,

Or is it divine,

To be in line,

Like a lemming on the edge,

Or our feet on a ledge,

About the future,

Like a ripped open suture,

We develop our plans,

And fire up our lans,

To prevent an issue,

That requires more than tissue,

But in this place,

The Human Race,

Is big on hype,

But doesn’t read the type,

That has been written for the ages,

And on many web pages,

That we are killing the earth,

And spending its worth,

So that future generations lost,

At our generations cost,

Of killing the trees,

Of starting a new freeze,

Of melting ice,

The result is not nice,

For in the end,

The earth won’t bend,

And we will die,

With contaminated sky.

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