The World We Have Today

We now have wider freeways

But our perspective is narrow always

We spend more on irrelevancies

But spend less on our enterprises

We buy more than we can chew

And enjoy less that which are not new

We build big and splendid residence

Yet our families are small and condense

We have more conveniences

But less time to achieve its uses

We have more degrees and qualifications

But less understanding to its applications

Our expectations has graciously swollen

But our problems has not for once fallen

We have more medicines than before

But incurable illnesses are twice more

We have multiplied our assets

But have reduced our etiquettes

We’ve talk too much about our self

But seldom listen to ethics of pelf

We have barely loved one another

But swiftly hated friends and strangers

We have learnt how to make a living

But have never made a life worth believing

We have easily added years to life

But life to years we’ve done with strive

We have been all the way to the moon and back,

But to visit a neighbour is what we lack

We have conquered outer space and beyond

But our inner man we worship as a god

We have sanitized the air as a whole

But have succeeded in polluting the soul

We stand bravely tall in quantity

But on our knees we are in quality

Ruled by tall men with short disposition

Rewards with deep profit and shallow correlation

We have higher income and low morals

We learn more theories and less practical

We live in the era of global warming

But what we get is domestic burning

We have the supply of food on the increase

But kwashiorkor is our incurable disease

We spend more to build houses and tombs

But have less regards for broken marriages and homes

Caleb A. O

08026755943

belaciano007@hotmail.com

P.O Box 8021 Wuse Abuja Nigeria