Selfish Ideals Poem by RoseAnn V. Shawiak

Carrying the light of interior logic and wisdom is difficult
in this modern day and age.
Atrocities of progress are bearing down on us and our children
so much that we have nowhere to turn.
Tears burning our eyes, prayers said until we are hoarse from
the effort, yet we are no closer to any type of solution to
our problems of modern day woes.
Where to turn is no longer a question, because we have gone in
a three-hundred sixty degree turn and still have not found our
way.

Beatitudes have become popular, but have absolutely no meaning
and receive no acknowledgement from our society on any level.
Flames of honesty and truth have fallen aside on our way to
splendor, glitter, and money of many denominations, but we have
lost what is most important to us and all of our futures.
Our children are our hopes and dreams, yet we have taught them
through society's example and our own to turn their backs on
our traditional values and morals.
Left in an extremely tepid atmosphere, our youth have no
stability or balance, no limits or caring parents.

They are rightfully searching for their places in society,
yet we keep pushing them aside for selfish whims and ideals
of our own - ones we ourselves were never allowed to develop
by our parents.