System Change / by Brian Kunde

System Change
by Brian Kunde

A slow-down time, a take-stock time —
That’s winter as it was;
But that’s a pleasure of the past
That’s passed away, because
      We’re changing systems! Yes we are!
      We don’t like things the way they are!
      We mustn’t stay the way we are —
      Indeed, what ever does?

A time to study, and assess —
That’s how it used to be.
But that’s a luxury we can’t
Afford this year, as we
      Like lemmings, rush into the flood!
      It’s time to change! We’re sweating blood!
      And if we change, and it’s a dud?
      Oh my! Catastrophe!

But ways are changing, far and near,
And we must go along.
What happens elsewhere has to here,
And so we say so long —
      Goodbye to methods of the past!
      They’re passé, so they couldn’t last!
      We must have something new, and fast!
      To Progress — right or wrong!

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System Change

from Bibliotec(hnic)a : Poems, Sep. 24, 2013.
An earlier version appeared in
SUL News Notes, v. 5, no. 20, May 31, 1996.

1st web edition posted 5/15/2014.