Pause

We have a progressive society,
We've left the old shackles behind,
We purged our new world of religion,
At least the supernatural kind.

We exalted reason and logic,
Revelation we deemed as passé,
Things that are right and things that are wrong,
Who knows, if science can't say?

We left tradition and family,
These things do not fit in our story,
The old values are only oppressive,
And add nothing at all to our glory.

With our laptops and our iPhones
We found our own visions and voices,
Instead of our parents old values
We broadened our hopes and our choices

But I stopped to ask the hard questions,
I paused to examine the path,
I found that the young ones were lonely,
And they didn't know history or math.

I asked with care for the progress,
I asked what had come of the hope,
They told me of treatment they told me of drugs
They take that can help them to cope.

I saw that our cities had fallen,
With Misery and crime on the rise,
And I saw that those speaking of freedom
Were just Marxists In a disguise

I could see that all change was not progress,
I could see we believed a big lie
I discerned we left fountains for cisterns,
And now sadly those cisterns were dry

Progress is not found in the running,
If the runners run the wrong way,
The wages of sin will always be death,
And there'll always be someone to pay.