Awakening

Awakening

A Poem by DrD

Like old Rip Van I went to sleep

And woke up just today

I went to see what time had reaped

What changes it had made

We once sexed now people texted

Now men had married men

And everything had me perplexed

Because nothing was like then.

A U.S. President of color,

Who would have imagined that?

The New York Yankees in the cellar

What had the years begat?

Computers, GPS and fax

Talk of colonies on Mars

Google’s vast source of facts

And solar powered cars

The f-word now used on TV

The morning after pill

Gangman style that pathetically

Needs help from Dr. Phil

Shameless are reality shows

And rap pretends to be song

While rehab is where starlets go

When everything goes wrong

And Bonds breaking Maris’ record

With 73 chemical home runs

As athletes and sports are checkered

By steroids for everyone

How sad it is that Marilyn died

What did fame and fortune bring?

And who killed Kennedy besides

Bobby and Martin Luther King?

And Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston,

Pavarotti and Rosa Parks

And Natalie Wood, she was a cute one

What tragedies the years had marked.

Where are the towers on the skyline

That touched the clouds with pride?

It can’t be true that men designed

An act where three thousand died.

I do not know this foreign place,

The sight just makes me weep

Each altered view I will erase

By returning to my sleep.

© 2013 DrD


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Oh wonderful, and you seemed to have captured the lost years so very well - maybe left out that all the "mom and pop" shops are gone and replaced by mega monopolies......that really amazes me that they have garnered so much power in the name of "saving people money". Sometimes I just want to go back to sleep too and miss all of this mess that is supposed to be progress!!

Posted 11 Years Ago



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DrD
DrD

A suburb of heaven, Mexico



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I'm just a guy living in Mexico. I am the author of SMITH COUNTY JUSTICE (horribly over priced) and some other books you can find in my photos. or at my website: http://auth18.wix.com/david-e.. more..

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A Poem by DrD