INDECISION

AS YOU WILL SEE< THIS POEM WAS WRITTEN MANY YEARS AGO< BUT SOME THINGS STILL PERTAIN TO TODAY'S WORLD.
INDECISION


On a clear day not long ago
They sent a rocket into space
And since man’s landing on the moon
Are all these other flights a waste

Oh sure we’re bound to learn much more
But have we thought about the cost
Is it really worth the money
When you think of all we’ve lost

Just think of all that could be done
With that enormous wealth
Curing sickness and disease
Restoring millions back to health

Or what about the very poor
Who all but starve most every day
Yet, when you come right down to it
It’s we who have to pay

The welfare rolls are full of those
Who could just as easily work
But that would be the harder way
It’s much easier to shirk

Why can’t we live in a placid world
You do your share and I’ll do mine
It really can’t make things much worse
And might even restore mankind

For without sickness and hunger
We could strive for other gains
And maybe go back into space
To see what mysteries it contains

Somehow though, this will never be
Blame the rich, as well as the poor
The poor, content to live that way
The rich just squeezing to make more

In summing up the argument
Let’s let the heavens be
And concentrate right here on earth
On problems that we all can see

But on the other hand again
What good would come of that day
With pollution bad and getting worse
We’d need another place to stay

It becomes a vicious cycle
Like a top going round and round
Now let’s just stop and think a bit
There is an answer to be found

In other words, what’s really said
Is what’s to be is to be
For only one among us
Controls our destiny

And He will judge our fate
In heaven or below
Just how we feel about all this
Might well depend which way we go

So let the poor not lift a hand
And let the rich make more
You’ll know if you were right or not
When you see who opens up the door

And if you’re wrong and never know
What’s truth and what is not
It makes for little difference
And will all soon be forgot

The world we know will never change,
For no one man is all the same
If that’s the way it all evolves
Then just who really is to blame

The answer comes when you turn to God
And so it’s best we should
For only through the Lord my friend
Is where all find peace and brotherhood