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LIFE'S PARADOX

It seems to me the saddest thing,
like we're caught in some disjointed mystery,
when I take a serious look
at what is going on 'round me.
Oh! The times we live in...
What we're writing for posterity!
It seems to me, it's not at all
the way it ought to be.
These paradoxes of our lives,
I view with near righteous indignation...
But we've all done our part to write

our times eulogy of degradation.

Seems we have a lot more knowledge
but a whole lot less wise judgment,
our accomplishments reach astounding heights
but our values are in the basement.
Wants readily outweigh our needs,
we're spending more, enjoying it less.
don't appreciate the things we have
and find no real happiness.
We know how to make a living
but not how to live our life,
instead we stress out to the max,
we know far to much strife.

We can conquer seas and mountains
and even conquer outer space
but we don't have a clue what we should do
when it comes to the human race.
We scoff, rebel and degradate
that which we don't understand,
yet seems we've never learned to really love
our neighbor, our fellow man.
We don't appreciate our differences
nor respect another's view
yet we expect that others
ought to agree with me or you
and when they don't, we get offended
and think that they are fools;
seems we've all but forgotten
all about the "Golden Rule".
We have too much pride in having more,
we point fingers and we gloat,
preach on other's worldly wrongs
but won't remove our own mote
in our own eye and sadly
we refuse to believe
that others might be just as good
and right as you or me.
We hate too much, we talk too much,
we have narrow visions and wider roads,
can tell others how to live their life
but can't carry our own load.
It seems we have less wellness
and a whole lot more problems
and for all our many 'experts'
we are not able to solve them.
We have shorter tempers, taller visions,
bigger dreams and less ambition...
Seems to me a paradox
of modern life's condition.

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