MICROWAVE SOCIETY

If only I could go back, to life so smooth and slow
When patience was a virtue, from which rewards would grow
When things were made with loving hands, and skills were cherished
arts
And every item held a part, of one soul's deepest heart

Did we have it better then, in days from echoes past?
Have our wants and needs eclipsed, or merely now contrast?
Has our intellect expanded, and our maturity regressed?
Has sophistication, dulled appreciation, to what once did impress?

Has a sense of urgency become a vital force?
In our quest for progress, have we strayed off life's course?
We want instant gratification, like infants at the breast
Our hunger never satisfied, .......denied contented rest

Make it better, get it now, a picoseconds too long!!!
The race goes to the swiftest, while dreamers tag along
Maybe if we stopped and looked deep within our souls
We'd find our miraculous existence, the grandest achievement extolled

Anita
10/4/01