Naiad 1975 - Lake-Sumter Community College

OUR WORLD
It's a troubled world we live in -
and we wish that we might find
Not only happiness of heart
but longed-for peace of mind.
But where can we begin our search
in this age of automation
With neighbor against neighbor -
and nation against nation? ,
Where values have no permanence
and change is all around
And everything is "sinking sand"
and nothing "solid ground."
Have we lost our own faith in leaders
unworthy of our trust?
Have we forgotten Babylon,
Egypt, Rome, and Greece,
And all the mighty rulers
who lived by war, not peace?
In them there is a lesson
which we have got to find
In order to escape this,
the decay of all mankind.
Carolyn Elmore
Third place poem
Naiad Creative Writing Contest
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