Written a long time ago.
Gone are the days of long ago
when life was simple and oh so slow
and we ran and jumped when we were kids
not a care in the world just endless bliss
climbing trees and miles of walks
out in the country as Nature talks
telling us to go this way
here is a better place to play
down by the stream to catch a fish
and putting it back deaths not our wish
as life is precious in every way
and we did not eat that fish today
spending all day out in the woods
amusing ourselves as kids should
life was simple without many cares
no TV or cell phone just us and fresh air
coming home tired at the end of the day
to parents who asked if we enjoyed our play
knowing we were out in the woods
playing our games just as kids should
not stuck indoors unless it had rained
although to us kids it was all the same
I feel sorry for the modern-day kid
not knowing the joys that we all did
as we played our games without a care
and for each other we would always be there
long gone are those days never to return
for life has changed those years we have burned
the world is different and now it’s not safe
for kids in the woods or down by the lake
no longer climb trees and nature in place
instead, stuck at home with a screen in their face
and where they go so does that phone
as people walk, they are never alone
they are so glued to that bloody screen
that life passes by to them unseen.
The modern kids of today
know not the joys as we did in play
but life was so much simpler then
and I feel sorry for you my friend
raised in a world with a phone in your face
the beginning of the end of the human race
for Nature’s world will pass you by
and will die before your very eyes
and you will see it on your phone
and realize you are alone.
no birds or animals’ grass or trees
all gone all extinct just to please
those of you of the human race
that needed that phone stuck in your face.
for the phone has replaced the wonders around
all of which can only be found
by looking up and glancing about
and thinking then there is no doubt
that the wonders of Nature can only be seen
by eyes no longer on that screen.
Read the poems in my other blog at https://pondblog2011.com