Age To Page
'Tis awhile since I last sat and looked at
our generation
My generation
Wouldn't spend a second thinking of the
nation
For 'tis our individual acts that sum up
the whole
Looking now, I seem to find a hole
A poke by a pole
Or perhaps something stronger
May suffice to make us better
And through this piece, I pray God
wiser...Here and there, I incline my ears
to listen to the voice of my brethren
Then and only then
Do my eyes see a problem
There seems to be a paradigm shift
Then I put my pen to paper to give my
generation a lift
A world hugely influenced by movies,
music and more
Everyone asks for more
Gone are the days of moonlight folklore
Or candle-lit family dinners
The world's been stolen by a bandit of
hustlers
Everyone's on the move, chasing papers
The earth ponders on the shallowness of
its newest visitors
No one's real anymore, just impostors
Being who others want them to be just
to fit in
In the process losing the soul within
Everybody sells their soul I know
But the exchange value should show
Brains have gone on an infinite
sabbatical
Since google went global
Hearts lost their beats as hugs became
'smileys'
Wiser still the animals?
A fast track, a fast train, my bad, fast
cars, where are we headed?
Reading of books has hitched a free ride
to extinction
Oh, the emptiness of a busy life
Oh, the strength of strife
Push down, pull down, walk over, to
thrive
Our minds have deleted the words:
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poem by Jenim Dibie
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