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The World is Upside Down


 

The world is upside down

Side to side

Left to right

Diagonal

 

What’s bad is good and what’s good is bad

Children being exposed to the evils of the world--

Far too soon

 

Parents putting their careers first to support their families--

Whom they put last

Strangers raising stranger’s babies

And men approaching younger ladies

 

Family? Who are they?

But I can tell you everything there is to know about my friends

Her? Oh, I hate her

But she is my best friend

 

Ask her to be my girlfriend?

Sure, I’ll send her a text later.

I have five hundred friends—

Whom I’ve never met.

 

We need to make the world right side up again.

Stop being caught up in sin.

Find the straight arrow path.

 

Learn the difference between good and bad.

Teach the children what the world has to offer

Let them learn reality on their own

 

Leave work at work and allow yourself to come home.

Get to know your wife again

 Meet your daughter for the first time

Know that your wife hates spiders and your daughter is afraid of the dark

Find women your own age or older

You could learn something

 

Ask her out

With roses or a note

Take your five closest friends on a road trip

 

The world may be upside down,

But we are backwards

Let’s hit refresh

And start anew

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