Paradigmatic Shift Poem by Ramesh Joshi

PARADIGMATIC SHIFT...?

A PARADIGMATIC SHIFT WE LEAP INTO LIFE
TO THE VALUES MUNDANE, LEAST NATURAL;
MORNING PRAYERS REPLACING FINGERS TO
MORNING TO MOBILE TUNES HALLO CALLERS.

REVERENCE TO FAMILY ELDERS REPLACED
BY MECHANICAL HEARTLESS MUNDANE
GOSSIPS, IN COLD-BLOODED CENSORING WORDS
THAT SURE TO HURT REPENTING AGED ELDERS.

AGED IN FAMILY CIRCLE, ODD INCONGRUITY TO
PAINFUL AVOIDABLE NUISANCE AWAITING ‘ SHUT
UP' BY ANY YOUNGSTER AT TIME OF SWEETCHOICE,
THAT SILENCES SAGE COUNSEL, UNSOLICITED MINUTE.

SELF SACRIFICE AT THE BACKSEAT, PERSONAL GAINS
SUPERIOR; , ALMS AND CHARITY REPLACED BY GREED
AND BEGGARY LIMITLESS IN SHAMEFUL ABUNDANCE,
SHIFTING TO PARADIGMATIC SHIFT OF VIRTUES BY VICE.