A city-life has gone to dogs these days, <br />With problems of water, shelter and food; <br />The cost of living has gone up always; <br />The ‘luxury’ cannot keep one’s health good! <br /> <br />A village-life is far better to all; <br />Tho’ time ticks slowly, health is at its peak; <br />Yet, love and courtesy is maintained tall; <br />A simple livelihood, most farmers eke. <br /> <br />But still, men throng the cities all the time, <br />To live a discontented, worthless life? <br />And neither are the mind and soul sublime; <br />Man struggles much to combat daily strife. <br /> <br />So, why can’t men be level-headed then, <br />And live ’midst Nature’s plants, beasts, birds like wren? <br /> <br /> 8-2-2002<br /><br />Dr John Celes<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sonnet-a-village-life-is-better/
