Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Poetry Thursday 16 - What's the Message

 As a member of a generation several times removed from the present day I am coming closer to the realisation that the language I was taught is foreign in comparison to now. 



What’s the Message

 

I wonder what we’ve come to,

when a lion is a tiger,

the signal sent out is new,

but the meaning is unclear.

 

It used to be easier,

when receptors didn’t need to woke,

when the statement was clear,

and the words were as they were  spoke.

 

But now lion or tiger could be tabby,

historic positions are not kosher,

decade of free love shabby,

how do oldies become adapter?

  

Aren’t we all simply humans,

including preferences and faults,

communicating with other humans,

faced with unexpected jolts.

 

Society’s impositions not needed,

fashionable attitudes keep out,

leave us to relate unheeded,

we can manage without your shout.

© David L Atkinson November 2023 



God Bless 



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