What Happened?

What happened to decency? 

When did the road veer from the country and 

Thus the world into the grubbing hands 

Of mewling grifters? 

Were the corn fed lads and coal fired sons 

So agitated for a future? 

Is it just a sign of our age 

That the hard lessons of yesterday 

No longer can hold against the tide 

Of a appetite for destruction? 

Have we tarnished the rainbow 

So much only black and white remain?

How could so many turn from tomorrow

To the wages of their own self interests? 

Is there any truth left 

To be devoured?

Ken e Bujold

Reviews

[Relic]

It's unfortunate that throughout many years decency has taken a backseat. Corruption, violence, stress, and immorality are the norm now in many forms. I believe the internet does indeed play a small part.

People have become addicted to there cell phones and are much more obsessed with social media which can lead to a self-centered personality. Because of that, looks and status have become more important than holding open a door for an elderly woman.

I wonder what the world will look like in ten years. It's then one might look back at your poem and determine if the questions are still worth asking. I assume they will be.

[Ken e Bujold]

they will always be worth asking relic. though what kind of answers we find going forward is a distressing thought

[Chris Shaw]

Sadly decency seems to have flown out the window. Things ain’t what they used to be and I have to say that the tinternet has played a large part in this. I for one am pleased that I am a dinosaur of the old world. Every time my mobile rings “scam” comes to mind before I even know who us calling. Sad state if affairs Ken.

Chris

[Ken e Bujold]

if dinosaur is not answering cell b4 thinking scam, not sure what I am since I wander around for days sometimes not even aware of where my cell is.
thanks for stopping by chris

[Chris Shaw]

You are welcome :))

[JanetRobertson]

With all due respect, can I discuss something very serious with you? Please reply to me, I have an important topic to discuss with you.Please email me here [email protected]

Sincerely,

Mrs.Janet Robertson

[John the Baptist]

Sometimes I feel I blame the internet for too much, but it has enabled a whole new level of crime to surface. My wife and I lost $14,000 when some hacker somehow obtained our checking account info. We have avoided other online grifters by being alert. I don't know if these people have strayed from the old standards as the poem suggests. Possibly, they never had any to begin with.

[Ken e Bujold]

i feel for you John. I also don't know where the internet fits into the overall malaise of our current times, it certainly doesn't help. For me the poem works as a series of simple questions to hopefully provoke readers to examine our own roles in the ever increasing drift towards division. thats it, nothing more

thanks for stopping by

[willweb]

It is definitely a different world than I remember. Decency, politeness, just being nice to people seem to be things of the past. And I know it happened slowly but it seems it has changed overnight. Nicely expressed my friend

[Ken e Bujold]

thanks Will. kindness so cost so little we have all seemed to have decided it's of no value, or so it feels more and more these days

[W. Barrett Munn]

I think this is a poem that needs to be written, needs to be read. It takes a world-sized view which is needed at this moment-there is enough of self-centeredness to go around.

Winston

[Ken e Bujold]

there is indeed. which is why it forms itself in the way of questions. no preaching, just a soft nudge, i hope, to all of us. hopefully everyone can see themselves in the answer to atleast one of these 7 questions