' Use To Walk Everywhere' Poem by Linda Winchell

I remember when we use to walk everywhere!
Driving back then, was never really an option!
To school, to church, to the grocery store
And on the way I remember, while skipping and hoppin!

Now I'm lucky to get up, to even answer the phone!
Have a remote control, to change the channels on T.V.!
Then we all wonder why, we're all out of shape!
I know this sitting, is taking a toll on me!

And it was all done, in the name of progress!
Progress? Well it shouldn't look like this!
Most American's, are now overweight!
Sitting in chairs, their butts JUST fit!

Now I wonder what would happen?
If we were all, maybe to walk a mile a day?
I guarantee, we'd look a lot different!
In a more slimmed down, much healthier way!

Why wait until New Years Eve?
To make those resolutions, you know you'll never keep?
Just get up and walk a mile a day!
Get up off your backsides!
and use those things we all call our feet!