A walk in the park

I walk around the park on a bright sunny day

It is a simple walk for fun, the park paints a beautiful display

Children are running all over the place

They are of every race

The children are all at peace 

I even saw one chasing some geese

The parents are all sitting down on their phone

It is like the children are alone

It is a saddening sight

The parents, only in technology do they take delight

I continue to look around on my stroll

A kid is  on the ground by a bike of which he lost control

I walk right past 

Sadly it looks like he may need a cast 

I pass a large grass field 

Thoughts of regret and my true face are revealed 

I walk past all of the problems in this park 

My mind begins to go dark 

The world has changed and I don’t think for the better

a girl falls, her parents on their phone too busy to get her 

When will we learn

Some time and attention is what the children yearn

When will we learn 

The golden years of childhood, to devices parents turn

When will we learn

A Winter Wonderland

The snow covers the ground

The children are happy because there is no school

The children go and play in the snow

They dream of snow forts 10 feet high

The snowplows come rumbling through 

 snow piles up in the yard even more

Forts and snowmen are build 

The weather and wind get colder

The children go back inside

The newly-wed couple lives next door

For snow, they have a different view

Snow is an annoyance

The husband goes out to shovel the snow

He is hoping it will stop

They both need to go to work

They are working for their future

A baby is on the way 

They need all the money they can get

He goes back inside, defeated

His wife welcomes him in with hot chocolate

They spend the rest of the day inside

The old man sits in his window

He watches all the other people

He is hoping the snow will stop

He cannot shovel the driveway

He is stuck in his home

He decides to make the best of it

He decorates his house, Christmas is only days away

His son and his family are flying in soon

His phone starts ringing

His son is bearing bad news

The plane was delayed

He looks back outside in sadness

Hoping that it was all a bad dream