'Progress' Poem by Linda Winchell

'Progress'

Rating: 5.0


Popcorn popping in micro waves
Instant breakfast now the rage.
Wash and wear, today a must
no iron need, well maybe for that special touch.

Designer names on everything
you better not be caught, without one of these!
Fast cars, but can only drive posted speeds
so why then give more than one needs?

Education taken, not all in classroom fall
but in the privacy of your bedroom walls.
Cell phone buds pressed into everyones ear
people going deaf from too much they hear.

Progress seen almost everywhere
but still so many living in depth of lifes despair.
Have we come so far, that we've now fallen behind?
with all that progress give to all mankind?

Now drugs dispensed in the hands of those
who bought that progress, now emptied pockets owed.
Stress consumes the life of them
who's progress ate, when it first began.

Wasn't what we had before?
Just as much of this progress more?
A simpler time to create and be
all that makes up man's History.

What will those see when they uncover?
if progress ends this life we know?
In a scientist lab far away made
consumed by a bombs fiery glow.

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Linda Winchell

Linda Winchell

Chicago Illinois
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