Shrinking World Poem by David Harris

We live in a shrinking world
that grows smaller with each day.
Friends that live thousands of miles away
now only seem just a few hours away.

It is not that world is getting smaller
or that we are getting larger.
It is just that technology
is bringing us closer each day.

A trip that used to take months to do
is only a few hours away.
We can now fly half way around the world
and land there on the same day.

Communication makes it easier
to talk to one another
where as before letters
could take weeks to arrive.

News flashes around the world
just moments after it has happened.
We live closer to one another now
and our aspirations grow higher.

Though we grow closer
its always nice to give someone a hug.
It is more reassuring than seeing pictures
from a thousand miles away.

17 September 2010