{"id":3222,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:52","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3222"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:00:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:00:01","slug":"in-the-days-beyond-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/i-poems\/in-the-days-beyond-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"In the days beyond tomorrow."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> In the days beyond tomorrow.<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on September 11, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nThere are days when I&#8217;m despairing of a future for mankind<br \/>\nAs he sells his ancient birthright for a song<br \/>\nWhen it seems this foolish primate&#8217;s left his common sense behind<br \/>\nEverything he finds to fix it turns out wrong<br \/>\nIn the days beyond tomorrow when the world has been reborn<br \/>\nWill the memory of people be of rightful pride or scorn<\/p>\n<p>Global warming may just drown us when the ice-sheets join the seas<br \/>\nAnd the forests may be deserts shorn of life<br \/>\nMonocultures are disasters when they fall foul of disease<br \/>\nAnd the West and East can find a cause for strife<br \/>\nIn the days beyond tomorrow will there be a trace of man<br \/>\nWho is seeking self destruction in a generations span<\/p>\n<p>Mother nature may disown us and our politicians snap<br \/>\nAs they hurtle hell for leather to the end<br \/>\nThere are rules that we have broken as we gathered on our lap<br \/>\nEvery item that would let us help a friend<br \/>\nIn the days beyond tomorrow we may pay the price for greed<br \/>\nAs we wait in line for handouts or for crumbs on which to feed<\/p>\n<p>This may seem a gloomy painting of a world that&#8217;s gone awry<br \/>\nAnd the worst may be averted very soon<br \/>\nOr we may have found salvation in the worlds that fill the sky<br \/>\nNow that NASA has found water on the moon<br \/>\nIn the days beyond tomorrow I am sure that we will find<br \/>\nWays to live at peace with nature and not kill off all mankind<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the days beyond tomorrow. by cricketjeff on September 11, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved There are days when I&#8217;m despairing of a future for mankind As he sells his ancient birthright for a song When it seems this foolish primate&#8217;s left his common sense behind Everything he finds to fix it turns [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9718,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3222","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8287,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3222\/revisions\/8287"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}