The World Has Turned Angry

The world has turned angry.
Families have been replaced with technology.
Swiping and dinging has replaced listening and learning.

Drivers are enraged; impatient, unkind.
They plow over each other, like angry puppies
Because they must wait their turn.

Instant gratification has become the go-to now.
We want it immediately – information, food, attention.
The world has turned angry. The families are gone.

Technology has replaced love and kindness.
People spend more time in cars driving frantically
Than they spend in homes.

No one is listening to our children.
They sit in front of a tablet poking buttons
Wishing someone cared.
The world is sad.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2021


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Date: 5/17/2021 10:06:00 PM
How very sad but unfortunately all too true... Great poem....
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 5/17/2021 11:49:00 PM
Thank you. I see and yet I do not want to believe
Date: 5/17/2021 2:43:00 PM
this is sad but it's so true. I like this very much, Caren. A fave.
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 5/17/2021 11:49:00 PM
Thank you Andrea
Date: 5/17/2021 10:59:00 AM
What you so poetically describe is a true fact of today's way of life, very sad, we are becoming so robot like, not good, but bad! A brilliant poem dear friend. Hugs and blessings, Jennifer.
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 5/17/2021 11:49:00 PM
It is so sad! So sadly sad.
Date: 5/17/2021 9:56:00 AM
Ah, so true. Instant Gratification has become the god of many. Our children will suffer most, and they were only trying to cope.
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 5/17/2021 11:49:00 PM
I pray for them daily.
Date: 5/17/2021 6:35:00 AM
Human touch has vanished
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 5/17/2021 11:50:00 PM
Which is why grandparents are so incredibly revered.
Date: 5/17/2021 4:01:00 AM
Yes, we must put down objects and turn toward the objects of our love.
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 5/17/2021 11:50:00 PM
Before it is too late; no one lasts forever.
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