Grandfather is weeping

by Kelda Buehring - Aquarius

Grandfather is weeping
and the desert
soaks up the 
moisture.

Drums beat a heavy
rhythm 
as the children
dance.

Minds are a wasting
wasting away
in a land or
future in the 
present.

The whine
of 
computer screen
threatens 
to drive us mad.

Techno-hallucinogenic
cyber-virtual reality 
replaces Barny and
sesamee street.

Grandfather is weeping
and the asphalt,
absorbs the salty
drops.

TV sitcoms becoming
the moral 
structure or tomorrow's
leaders.

Chemical warfare
is a thing of the 
past, we have created 
viruses.

It's no longer
hey baby what's 
your sign,
as a pick up slogan
but, hey babe
what's your cellphone
number.

Elementary school kids
wearing beepers.
Because the cost of
daycare is too high.
After all we have
to pay
the car payment, credit cards
student loans and taxes
and with this we
can always reach you.

So don't play too rough
cause beepers aren't 
cheap.
Better yet try not
to play at all.

Grandfather is Weeping
and his tears fall 
upon metal and
Plexiglas to 
bead up and run down.

Semi-automatic isn't
good enough anymore.
So buy a catalog
and order the kit
to make fully automatic.

Can't be behind the times
the faster the gun 
the better the drive bye.
Cause people are blind
when they want to be.

Your blind too right?
that's why you didn't
see the little ones
the babies and toddlers.

Grandfather is Weeping
his tears fall onto 
hydroponic plants 
and a 
Brady bunch lawn.

Grandfather is dying
we are dying, babies are dying
animals are dying.
Not to feed the masses,
but to feel phamasutical
company wallets 
and they employ the masses.
Don't bite the hand 
that feeds your addiction.

We will be the grandparents
we will weep someday
and where will our 
tears fall?

  

Reason for writing:

    after living in a big city coming from a smalltown and seeing
so many people and disease and violence I suppose i just wanted
to vent, respond and this is how i channeled my anger, sometimes
outrage. At the least this was much healthier then anything
else i could have done    

Birth sign: Aquarius
Date created: 1999-11-10 00:08:48
Last updated: 2021-03-03 14:41:28
Poem ID: 53671

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