People Come and They Go

By

Glenn Allen Nolen

Copyright © 2002 By Glenn Allen Nolen
All Rights Reserved

People Come and They Go

People come and they go.
They go high and they go low.
They scatter to the far ends of the earth
In search of merriment and mirth.

But what for,
Just to open another door?
Man has free will
And we climb every hill.

It’s in us to explore.
It’s ingrained in our core.
So what can we do?
We take our family along too.

And what do we leave behind?
We leave something for someone else to find.
It all starts in the womb.
People are anxious to get out into the Big Room.

What if there was another way?
Would anyone choose to stay?
I have my doubt.
People fight to get out.

We can’t change who we are.
Why do you think we invented the car?
We had already crossed the ocean.
We needed a faster mode of locomotion.

And there it is.
That’s our biz.
Moving from place to place
Searching for a prettier face.

We do it at an increasingly faster pace.
For better or worse, that is the human race.
Certainly, we can improve.
Until then, we will be on the move.

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