Time Traveler
Imagine if you could travel back through time
Choosing any era to explore
What time in history would interest you?
Mine would be nineteen thirty-four
Why, you ask, would I choose that year
From all the great epochs in time
Just wondering how my parents survived
The crash of nineteen twenty-nine
Another era that's interesting to me
The late fifties when I was wed
I remember it was very scary back then
Nuclear war was hanging over our heads
But here we are in the twenty-first century
With all these amazing inventions
The world hasn't become any friendlier now
We still have the same old tensions
Perhaps if I live a hundred more years
Nations will have stopped waging war
I know, I know, you can call me a dreamer
We'll all just carry on as before
Do you know my answer to all of this
Keep on giggling the whole way through
Sing happy tunes and tell funny jokes
A little loving wouldn't hurt too!
© Jack Ellison 2014
Copyright © Jack Ellison | Year Posted 2014
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