Lamentation of the Old World

Another Short Poem

What happened to men of heart

Great men of days gone past

Acts of valor to them an art

Deluded grandeur in any task

In this new world suffering reduced

We have comfort never known

A life to create people can choose

Unconscious of the seed we’ve sown

Was this brilliance or a raw deal

For liberty, cherished tradition we sell

Leaving our past, our fate we seal

And find imagined paradise to be a hell