Not Like Our Days

Rushing wheels now veer the streets Racing in maddening motions We stand submerged in several screeching sounds Inundated by the indulgence of mechanical slaves And the wails of a whirling world Invisible wires stretched from north to south Makes now the world a narrow path We talk far off across the seas And scale the mountains in seconds Scheming to see new-fangled sites And tame the world to our taste Insatiable man yet roams and rushes all over Far beyond his eyes and senses To where others gently take their lodge Down the sea he dares to dive and delve He takes the wings of birds to the plumes And squints to see what lurks down the nooks Countless charms lure the mind And nosh the senses every day Fashions and fascinations budge back and forth So much prickle and plunge the mind And leaves us in watch for what next to await