What’s going on with the world today?
What’s going on with man?
Why in the name of all that is right?
Are we heading down into the can?
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We’re wiser and stronger and faster for sure
We’ve worked it all out to a T
We need not for any or all to endure
We’ve taken our sweet liberty
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We’re free to pollute and to waste all the earthÂ
We’re rich and we’re wanting for nought
We need take no care for the misery found
In the weak, in the poor, or the bought
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We live in the moment – with caution to wind
And sail on a decadent sea
For this world, and its wealth, and its beautiful things
Was created for, ME! ME! ME!
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What does it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, yet loses his soul? Mark 8:36
I originally had another song posted here, but all day I’ve felt that it was the wrong song. This is the one I believe it should have been from the start:
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Feb 14, 2013 @ 07:58:17
Wonderful poem Elizabeth; we are certainly more intelligent but have lost that connection with something bigger and this leads to collective narcissism.
Feb 14, 2013 @ 08:42:26
‘Collective narcissism,’ well said, Ivon.
Feb 14, 2013 @ 16:17:31
Great poetry and song.
Feb 14, 2013 @ 18:18:52
Thanks Patti.