Suppressed Optimism

I have a strong desire to save the world

I get hysterical at the thought of where

the people of earth are going.

The fate of this spherical blob is horrendous

I dearly wish to be able to stop this, the hatred

is so great that it is all around us.

Hypocrisy now rules, with superstitious' men

as it believers. We have now become the gremlin,

no longer it is someone else.

Maybe now that spring is here, people will

become more placid. And the

ways of life will become more stable.

I wish I could believe it.

by Norma (Wellman) Maynard 1970