Please Do Better Please Fix This World

We did not try as hard as we could We got staid and stodgy and old and stale We gave up after awhile When we discovered our votes counted less than others Discouraged, depressed, disappointing ourselves. We are sorry, child, we truly are very very very very sorry. Please do better. Please fix the world. We lost faith in humanity, as we got hooked on screens. TV’s, I-pads, Kindles, I-pods, tablets, I-phones and other machines We forgot to be a family, lost our smiles, did not celebrate or talk. We began to text, even in anger, sitting next to each other As we typed out our irritation in a squawk. Sad, sorry, alone, living in determined isolation next to each other. We are sorry, child, we truly are very very very very sorry. Please do better. Please fix the world. We were the hippies, the beatniks, the lovers, the peacemakers But we were also the ones sent to a swamp in Viet Nam, Fodder, who were not supposed to get back, We lived through assassinations of great men, We saw JFK get shot in the head ten times a day in 1963 on TV. We watched Jack Ruby kill Oswald, We saw the four darling little girls who got bombed at Sunday school We lost our hope, our humanity, our innocence. We lost ourselves. We are sorry, child, we truly are very very very very sorry. Please do better. Please fix the world.