Fundamentally Wrong

So many lines with so many rhymes
To chide the stupidity rampant in these times

Minds are small, attention spans are short
Like an unwanted fetus some girl will abort

In goes the saline and out comes the slime
Don't you know stopping a heart is a crime?

No wait, that only occurs outside the womb
It's ironic the safest place becomes a tomb

Thousands, maybe millions could be alive today
Happy with childless couples, a much better way

It's sick, degrading, and fundamentally wrong
Thirty odd years is a length too long

This may be an odd stance to have at all
Willingly though, I challenge that decree with gall

Children are the future, our best resource
It's steering this country off the moral course

Someday soon, that decree shall be overturned
And all those in favor shall get burned

Do this because life is sacred, more than gold
Or else we'll be seeing a deserved, hellish cold

Reviews

[The Analog Kid]

Personally I am pro choice, there are some people on this earth that really don't deserve to be parents.
This is such an emotionally fuelled piece. The fourth line really stood out to me, and you can really feel your passion.

[The Analog Kid]

Good point Bree.

[Kenneth The Poet]

Thanks, Calypso.

[The Analog Kid]

You made your point nicely. I agree completely. Watch out. You may be attacked by the "tolerant" leftists.

[Kenneth The Poet]

I was pro-life when I wrote this, and I am pro-choice now. I think you are about the attacks that leftists can take on people. I respect people even though I may not agree with them politically on all issues. Thanks for the very kind review.

[The Analog Kid]

Correct. It is all about respect. You are welcome, Ken.

[Eloha]

So the moral of the piece is that you are pro-life? How I do enjoy a good poem about wombs!

[Kenneth The Poet]

I wrote this piece a few years ago. I've never been big on abortion, but I know people's choices are their own. I was in the midst of a religious revival at that time.

[Eloha]

Ah thanks for the background, I think I'm due for a religious revival soon myself. Abortion does seem sad for the moral and spiritual perspective I suppose, but so does the curtailing of women's rights and human choice. It's a toughy.

[Kenneth The Poet]

I am solidly pro-choice now. As a man who knows the pain of miscarriage firsthand and as a public servant in a poor area, it has informed my view of abortion greatly.

[Tate Morgan]

I can appreciate the idea that life is sacred I cannot agree though unless we extend this to all life.Since we think we have the right to overpopulate the world. Wipe out other species and take what we want We are doomed to be the only life left at some time.And when the silent spring finally comes.and all the birds are in a museum.We'll sell our birthright for a song. So our grandchildren can pay to see them. We live in really open country but it has problems now too it is uninhabitable in great swaths out west.We only have enough land now to feed the world we need to address it in some way abstinence has never worked nature has always trumped it.Nature will always trump policy it is honed to produce and propagate it never ran into the problem of overpopulation.We already are influencing the nature of our world Spring comes 2 weeks earlier than when i was a child winters lack cold summers are hot.We only need to look to our inner neighbor Venus to see our future fate.A smoldering cauldron of hot gasses many times more dense than our own A runaway green house.We have reached the limit of habitation we need to slow our population .There are more people alive today than have lived through the entirety of humanity.some 40,000 generations of humanity

[Eloha]

This was a good rant, we should do this again sometime.

[Tate Morgan]

Forgive me if it offends you it is only opinion . It is however backed up in fact by our own reality. It is not my intention to create an argument. I simply offer a counterpoint.

[Tate Morgan]

one good thing about a great work of poetry it brings out emotional response from everyone.Kenneth you manage to state your opinion ina fluid beautiful prose better than I .If my opinion offended you i am sorry and will remove it if you like.

[Eloha]

Not at all Tate and Ken, we are all gentle people, it's really good to see debate and opinions.
read moreNot at all Tate and Ken, we are all gentle people, it's really good to see debate and opinions.

Every event is ecological. I wonder what statement aboration is to the cosmic web of life?

[Kenneth The Poet]

Thanks a bunch, Tate.