Birth Rights

A look at our certain future!

Granddaughter Payton

Wheat fields wave across the meadow

bright yellow 'neath a sky of blue

Beautiful swaths of sun bleached straw

cut down long before their due

So like the children of our city

colored yellow, red, brown and gold

Living out their lives in dog years

struck down long before they're old

This sickness flows through our land

leaving the helpless and despaired

Where all are made to be thrown out

none are saved or even repaired

When the silent spring finally comes

and all the birds are in a museum

We'll sell our birthright for a song

so children can pay to see them

Then all the beauty will be gone

as our grandchildren run out to play

Not under blue or 'cross the green

but in the trash from yesterday

Written August 13, 2009

All rights reserved

Author's Note

At the rate we are going we are sadly destined as a race for a dry, dusty, polluted, future. Devoid of beauty, music, children or hope!.

Reviews

[AprilRN1210]

you are by far, one of the most talented writers I have had the pleasure to meet.. I absolutely love this.. I love the picture, the font, color, the message, the flow, the rhythm, the imagery, each carefully selected word.. It feels light and hopeful and yet at the same time like a harsh wake up call.. nice job as always..

[Tate Morgan]

Thank you April I smiled upon reading that and felt I had accomplished what I set out to do.I am humbled and honored.

[AprilRN1210]

I am glad I could make you smile.. Your poetry always makes me FEEL.. I love the depth of emotion in which you write your meaningful pieces.. you always walk away feeling like you learned something or experienced something worthwhile... I would say it was a home run with this one sir.. You are more than welcome, my friend.. It is I, who is honored.. :)

[Tate Morgan]

Thank you my friend.

[AprilRN1210]

anytime.. I love reading your work... It is my pleasure..

[Lyn Anderson]

Very sad and pessimistic indeed. Well written, not sure why an apostrophe would be necessary in dog years, but well done never the less.

[Tate Morgan]

Thank you Kl I am, afraid from my point of view at 55 i look back on the world I knew and then forward to the world we see in our future they hardly resemble one another greed and corporate control have precipitated the rape of this world on a huge scale.

[Tate Morgan]

By the way I agree on the apostrophe thank you

[Lyn Anderson]

You are very welcome

[Baby Ricochet]

"No way to delay. There's trouble coming every day." From an old Frank Zappa song. Between climate change, the income disparity and the rigged economy it's real f**k hard to be optimistic for the future.

[Tate Morgan]

I dont have an optimistic future as i see it we are the last ones who will enjoy this life after this it gets pretty tough and crowded thanks mark

[jacob erin-cilberto]

this is a fine poem about how we are just trashing our beautiful land, which in the end, leaves ugly for our children to grow up in and with.

and in more ways than one, children these days are growing up much faster than we did...we got to be kids...
and yet, even as an aging adult, i am not sure i want to be here in 20 years...nature is just being overrun by not only technology but also apartments, malls...etc.
and pretty song we will again be singing..."where have all the flowers gone?"

really good poem, my friend.

[Tate Morgan]

Hi Jacob yeah I agree it is a sad tale of woe we leave our children to come Thank you

[NoelHC]

A grim view of the future, one that we can still change for the better.
Well written.

[Tate Morgan]

Noel Thank you I sure wish it were that simple. All the news is bad oceans running out of food Elephants tigers all the great ones being killed at such a rate there is only one conceivable outcome. I shudder to think what we are leaving our grandchildren.

[wordman]

and that my friend is just about the way it will be greed and power has always run the world
and we put them there

[Tate Morgan]

Thanks man I think so too . Corporations will never stop until all of it is raped and gone

[Marie]

No, I never read it before. It a very haunting thing. I hope the world doesn't come to that.

[Tate Morgan]

marie hi yeah well it would seem we have no choice but to face this as a truth thank you

[Blogger]

Well, I am glad you found it. You are correct. The future really seems bleak and that is almost indisputable.

[Tate Morgan]

Truth is stranger than fiction and we are in for a bad time by the way things are going. Thank you

[TPK Stories]

It's sad to think what the future of the world has come to...love the music and the photos...

[Tate Morgan]

Thank you val It am glad it touched a part of you .