It Is Becoming Too Much Poem by Shalom Freedman

It is becoming too much-
One new problem after another
One focused on one
and supposedly solved it
Only to have two come in its place
And it too is not really solved-

The System is not working as it once did-
The subsystems are breaking down-
They pass their disorders on
And the medicine for one complicates things for others-

It is not good to get old-
And to have a worn - out - machine-

A part here or there may be replaced
But when the system really falters
One cannot prevent oneself
From going down and more down
Deeper and deeper into aching and pain and disability -

Oh youth oh happiness oh life
Why wasn't I more there for you
When you were there for me?