Schemes

That organize

So tidily

Models

That fit

So neatly

All the many

Substitutes

For reality

And the absolutes

Of each and every

Simplifying the convoluted

Of the complexity

Supplying easy answers

For all the difficult dilemmas

Fitting all the many different people

Into nice little categories

The almighty system

The time-saving, efficient

Well run system

 

Too bad isn't it?

That everyone can't think the same way

And conform according to the same

Easily understood set of standards

Then everything would be

So easy going and the system

Would seem so simple

And strong and stable

Too bad everyone has to be so different

Why can't everyone think, talk and act the same?

Then there would be no need

For problems or answers

And yet who is to say what

That one way should be like?

Who has the right to play

Omnipotent God

With so many people's lives?

 

by Hugh M. Lewis

Moments

 

1983


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