When did we forget how hard life is to live?
When did we forget what work feels like?
When did we forget how to walk 10 miles a day?
How do you skin raw meat?
Fashion a tent?
Build a fire without heat?
Who forgot Hunger? Cold? Plague?
They told us how our ancestors lived...
But why were they so vague?
They taught me the prime factors of Seven-Eighty-Two
But it seems they forgot to teach me
How to treat the common flu.
No one ever said 'Plant that with this.'
But they did tell me
About extraterrestrial abyss.
No one used to care how we lived so long ago,
But now is different,
And now we need to know.
Author notes
This would we narrated by someone who's civilization collapsed and the society would have to start over completley from scratch. She, I guess, is very angry at how technology has softened us so.
Written March 7th, 2005
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You can ask my hubby about how to make a fire or skin a deer. As for me- haven’t a clue. And yes it would be nice to know these things and more I am fascinated with old wives tales, your poem is wonderful. Thank you. Cindy
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Technology is a good thing as far as the advance of the nation is concerned, but even it has flaws and loopholes. That is why we mustn't depend entirely upon computers to sustain our likelihood...with all the knowledge that the best computer programmers have these days, even those programs can't possibly compare to the capabilities of a human brain. This is a very unique poem on a perspective I don't see much thought put into. I am now glad I navigated this way. Well done!
Many blessings,
Raven Aurora
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Thankyou, that was precisely why I wrote it. It was inspired by two things I was doing in school. We watched a movie in Social Studies about an alternate end to the Cold War, where all technology broke down, and for English, we are reading The Giver. Once again, thankyou for commenting and for understanding.
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This is a very good poem. Yes, if civilization collapses and we have to start over from scratch, we will need to get back to basics, and we will need to discover a few things for ourselves quite fast. This was well put in this poem.
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Very nice! Hooray for you, dude! This is a great poem!
(I saw surfer dude after you went to your bus today!)
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