The Way We Were

Once isolated from the world In tune with nature Living day to day Self sufficient Thrust into a globalized world New opportunities, open markets Technological advances Loss of control Terrrorism Disease The pace of life quickens Daylight hours changed Individualism and accumulation Destabilizing forces Confusion, vulnerability Our sense of wonder lost Family structures undermined Dependent on remittances Change laps island shores From all directions East and west; old and new; Modernity and tradition Fragments of culture scattered Like pieces of a puzzle Understood only when the last piece Is put in place