Where Have The Good Times Gone
October 22, 2008
Written by: Rose Marie Rideout

The city lights are dimmer,
Then they were when I was young.
The sounds of laughter’s silenced,
No one is having fun.
The roads have all been rolled up,
The stores all close one at a time,
For the shopping malls are stealing,
Our stores of every kind.

I remember when Woolworths,
Made the greatest donuts of all,
Eaton’s had the real Santa,
First thing early in the Fall.
We’d smile and say hello,
To everyone on the street,
That’s the way it was back then,
With strangers when you’d meet.

We would wander of to the park,
It was on our way home,
Back many years ago when I was a kid,
It was safe to go alone.
Things have sure changed a lot,
Too much year after year,
That cause the folks to lock their doors,
Living their lives in fear.

Too much abuse, no love is found,
All they share is greed,
No one seems happy as they were,
They want more then they need.
What are we teaching our children,
To live in a cold and lonely abusive time,
No love to fill their little hearts,
Too much have changed over time.