Suppressed Optimism

I have a strong desire to save the world

I get hysterical at the thought of where

the people of the 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 its believers.

We have now become the gremlins, 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.

Written by Norma Wellman, 1970, Tucson, Arizona.