Two thousand years ago
In the year of our Lord
You used to be
Now you are sitting here
Sighing
Crying
Regressing
As your peers are
Climbing
Flying
Progressing
Could this be you?
You used to be
Now you are lingering about
Whining
Idling
As your peers are
Dinning
Grinning
Winning
Could this be you?
You used to be
Now you are gnashing your teeth
Lamenting
Wishing
As your peers are
Walking the streets
Complete
Could this be you?
You used to be
Now you are hoarsely complaining
Busily blaming
Fuming
As your peers are
Planning
Planting
Could this be you?
You used to be
Now you pay rapt attention
Open to suggestions
No hesitation
As your peers are
Rethinking
Retreating
Could this be you?
You used to be
Now you are on bended knee
Pleading
Entreating
Seeking to please
As your peers are
Seeking their pleasure
Pleasing at their leisure
Could this be you?
You used to be
Now you are falling
Steadily
Surely
As your peers are
Rising
Steadily
Certainly
Could this be you?
You used to be
Now you are saying sorry
Praying
Supplicating
As your peers are
Soaring
Prospering
Swearing to swerve past your past
Could this be you?
You used to be
Now you are glorifying tattered clothes
Stitching
Patching
As your peers are
Designing
Posing
Changing wardrobes
Could this be you?
You used to be
Now you are sulking for losing only a farthing
Sobbing
Fainting
As your peers bathe in wealth
With mirth
Could this be you?
You used to be
Now you are hiding from your own
Ducking
Diving
Running away from ones you once saved from dying
Because you are now dying
Could this be you?
II
Is this evidence
Of a radical change?
When we thought you had it all wrapped up
Around your fingers
Change lingers
And lingers
Till it occurs
Inevitably
