Chirping birds, innocent laughter
Vibrant butterflies children ran after
Oh, dew on roses, green grass and trees
No smog in the morning, cool evening breeze.
No asthma or SARS
No late night TV hours
Books were companion to the children
Oh, the olden days were golden.
Grandpa, Grandma, uncles and aunts
Giant families had huge children gangs
Sharing, caring, loving together
Life was fun and simple rather.
No hectic pace, no mad race
Writing letters was people's craze
Honesty, integrity took precedence
Over money, power and influence.
No terrorist attacks, no war cry
No orphan, injured children, no wet eye
How green was the valley 100 years ago
I wonder the robotic generation would ever know!
4 comments:
Nice poem! Rather cool, though it talks of what-I-find a very-subjective topic. You might think that the "olden days were golden" (which I find a super cliched, very annoying phrase indeed! :P) but many might not. In my view, the elders would never see what "comfort" we lived in. What sorta life we led, can of course be viewed in two different methods. In your view, which is rather pessimistic, you see the "higher destruction" we lead to, which is all in effect rather symbolic &*%&$. ;-) In my view, we're just unnecessarily richer, and we have something that is rapidly increasing, and that all old shallow-minded people would rather be jealous of - longevity. So, I can bet ask any of those ppl whom you talk about, and they will say they'd rather be in today's (or tomorrow, whatever) robotic world, rather than in yesterday's boring sleepy world! :PP
Nevertheless, nice pome. ;)
Beautiful poem!
You just recreated my childhood world!
I feel sorry for my kids can't even imagine what type of enjoyment we had as kids- talking endlessly,laughing,playing, singing in those long afternoons of vacations.
I remember movie "Wall-E" which depicted space age life of people. They had enough, but they were unaware of the most basic things like plants and oceans and soil.
Keep it up.
Reinstating my point, all imaginations of future in my view, are highly exaggerated. It's not like we don't have time where we ought to - they are in the loss who themselves don't value the existing nature around them, and change it for the comfort of the computers (*sheepish confession of me being very shameless!*). But it never is, nor will be, that the avenue for such leisures shall not exist.
It always ends up being a personal choice - we might say that today's world is more competitive and what-not. But the entire taking up of competition is our discretion - at no time would facing any competition be any easier.
I believe you get the point. :) ...
Well I had actually written this poem a long time ago (class 5 or 6) where the topic was such that we had to support the opinion that life was better 100 years ago.
Though well i have a li'l different perspective on that. I believe every time has its own ups and downs. E.g. talking about luxury ..... well certainly the definitions have changed! Our life is way easier. But on the other hand we do give a miss to nature and its beauty. That is my point. It is very much there. We don't really realize its value and thanks to that, we are simply facilitating the end of our race.
No doubt, we have taken large strides in each and every field. But have we progressed in the true sense? Do we see the larger picture? We see the today and we have seen the yesterday. There are people to back them. But what about the TOMORROW? Who is thinking about that?
Well, guess I have deviated a little from the point I emphasized on in the post.
And thanks for those kind words guys!
Now I feel like blogging.
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