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[title] => Progress?
[time] => 2003-11-07 09:20:43
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[bodytext] => One day I had double Calculus. This is what I wrote in that class. I think it is far more productive than learning, say, recipricol identities. People often reflect upon Just how far we humans have come How the Dark Ages have come and gone And brag about all the things we’ve done And yes to some extent this is true Berlin tore down the mighty wall Columbus sailed the ocean blue And we’ve seen the statues of Stalin fall But….. The unprovoked slaughter of million of Jews While for so long, America looked the other way The meaningless killing the cameras finally viewed When the war ended on that “joyous” day While we’ve come a long way I must protest Can we call the Holocaust progress? We read the works that Shakespeare wrote And every day planes soar up high Women have the right to vote And our buildings touch the sky But… That fatal day this past September When that jet first crashed into the tower All of us will always remember The terror of that fatal hour While we come a long way I must protest Can we call Jihad progress? The Statue of Liberty stands her ground And polio’s no longer on the world scene The X-1 flew at the speed of sound And we’re hard at work on an Aids vaccine But… Crime is still steadily on the rise And though the civil war’s long over we must face the fact That we cannot without guilt avert our eyes While whites still kill whites and blacks kill blacks While we’ve come a long way I must protest Can we call murder progress? We’ve found the Titanic, deep beneath the waves And the DNA code has been solved We have more methods than ever with which to save Lives-and scientists know how we evolved But… The IRA isn’t interested in peace There’s still soldiers missing in the jungles of Vietnam No sign of the end of the fighting in the Middle East And more countries possess the atom bomb While we’ve come a long way I must protest Can we call war progress? The astronauts are exploring space And the navy is still patrolling the sea Each person continues life in their place And thank God America is still free But… Though Hitler is dead the Neo-Nazis go on And India is at odds with Pakistan Prisoners are shot at the crack of dawn And the Taliban fights to the very last man While we’ve come a long way I must protest Can we call violence progress? Though cell phones connect us hate still divides us We need to care more about what is inside us And until we all see through our own eyes That we share one boundless reach of sky There will still be war, and with it death As this planet, terrified, holds its breath And watches as all things come to pass Tyrant replaces tyrant-one worse than the last Until finally there will be no safe harbor Freedom will get smaller, and the graveyards larger Until we come to our senses-and we hear the last bomb drop And collectively, as ONE people yell STOP!!! ………Until that day I most protest: Have we really made any progress? [comments] => 3 [counter] => 217 [topic] => 6 [informant] => scott [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => AngryPoetry )
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