A pick-pocket gets stripp'd, beaten by mob; <br />A child-lifter is lynch'd in broad-daylight; <br />When man's alone, people are keen to rob; <br />For anything, everything, people fight. <br /> <br />A bus gets stopp'd and some men's throat's are slit; <br />A driver's killed; the car's driven away; <br />A wife is dowsed by her husband and lit; <br />More and more people are becoming gay. <br /> <br /> <br />Who knows if 'tis consented sex or rape? <br />Who does not possess perversions of sex? <br />The West has problems; let not the East ape; <br />Our modern life is stressful and can vex. <br /> Today, 'tis hard to live with sanity, <br /> Our earth's just one stop to Eternity.<br /><br />Dr John Celes<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/whither-civilisation-today/
