Leo Larry Amadore Poet Free verse

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Note:  The print version of this poem differs slightly from the audio version that appears here (I have deleted from the print version a few unnecessary words that I felt detracted from the piece as a whole .)

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As We Do Now

Will the children of today, 
when they are old, look back 
and say, as we do now,  that 
times have really changed?
Will they mean it in the same way
that we mean it now? Will they, 
in future, all remark, as we 
do now, how slow the pace of life 
once was and how fast, now, 
it has become? 

Abandoning their games, 
reshaping minds,  will they better 
understand than we have 
understood that not all 
all-too-rapid change is good?
Will they be fairer than we are --
cling to real, not bogus, values --
to their own unadulterated, 
kinder truths. 

Will justice be much fairer, blinder -- 
and, to repeat,  much kinder --
then than now?  Let us 
try to steer the way so that they 
may not, in future, do
as we do now.

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