by Afeez Adeyemi Adisa
Published on: Sep 16, 2004
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Type: Poetry

Today...
We've wider roads, but narrow minds
More money now, but we're far less kind
The buildings are taller but our tempers are shorter
We've polluted the world and we drink bottled water

Today...
We love too slow and hate too fast
The gulf between rich and poor is vast
We can e-mail a message across the globe
But ignore the old poor people across the globe

They spend millions trying to conquer space
Instead of conquering prejudice, hate and poverty
We chat and text from our mobile phones
Then sit in silence in our homes
Watching disgusting and outrageous living condition of other people of the world

We've more experts but less common sense
We developed ammunitions to kill ourselves
We spend millions on fruitless ventures while millions are living in complete poverty.
Our sense of humour, sympathy and concern about other people is gone..
Absolutely gone!

Criminals reassured of a lenient sentence
If only they could see that love is the way
There would be peace and understanding in this world today.

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