Reality Check

I had been driving a while

Without stopping to check

Though I had gotten far more

Than I expected to get.

The old car was faithful

And it responded very well

But I constantly ignored

Every warning bell.

There was one I couldn’t,

It was the check engine light

But I was so far from home

That it gave me a fright.

O how I wished

That I had checked my car

But this was just wishful thinking

Things had gone too far.

It is no different today

With how the trends are shaping,

  Very poor decisions and choices

We are repeatedly making.

And what is most amazing

Is we argue they are best

And become more adamant

When they don’t pass the test.

There is the gender issue

And there is same-sex marriage,

And we are heading downhill

In a broken carriage.

Fighting for all the wrong rights

But shirking our responsibilities

And developing a society

With the weirdest of philosophies.

Ignoring the check engine light

And all other warning signs

As our society catapults downward

Into steep moral decline.

It is now high time to stop

For a much-needed reality check

And stop ignoring the warning signs

That we constantly get.

Our children being whisked away

In our immoral slime

And suspect checks and balances

Are two of the signs.

So many things are broken

But we are turning a blind eye

And the reality check goes unheeded

As the truth we deny.

“Those Christians are weird

They want to spoil our good time

And exchange it for the drudgery

To which they are confined.

Don’t you see how they solicit

And unashamedly coax?

But their call for a reality check

Is nothing but a hoax.”

So this runaway train

That we refer to as our society

Will undoubtedly be derailed

Bringing great tragedy.

It’s like a plane in a nosedive-

Pull up!  Pull up!  Pull up!

But we ignore the warning

And continue to ride our luck.

It is reality check time

Unspeakable disaster threatens,

Don’t ignore the check engine light

And boast it will never happen.

Pull up! Pull up! Pull up!

The findings of the reality check,

Pull up! Pull up! Pull up!

Pull up and avoid the wreck.

Stewart Russell © October 2019