Changing Times...15º--38º

Didn't have anything new to read yesterday at "Write Group", so I resurrected a "timely" piece written maybe a year ago...It reflects my thoughts on the twice yearly time change in a somewhat civilized manner...I don't usually do poetry but here it is:.... OWAV:)

CHANGING TIMES

Sunlight

Moonlight

Daylight

Who was so bright?

Lose an hour here

Gain an hour there

Change clocks everywhere

Is it more than I can bear?

Spring them forward

Fall them back

Oh no I’m all out of whack

Is someone keeping track?

One clock 

Two clocks

Forty-seven clocks

Is there no more tick tock?

There was a time when

We had grandfather clocks

Cuckoo clocks

Mantle clocks

Sundials, are they long gone?

Now we have blinking lights

Saying change me, no me

Like spoiled children

Are they begging for attention?

We have Clocks on the microwave & range

Clocks on the coffee pot & computer

Clocks on the TV and telephone,

Should I keep going on and on?

Our life is ruled, lest we forget

Not by the sunrise or sunset

The simple time of daylight to dark

As nature intended

Is it now but a lark?

More time squandered

Less time saved

As twice a year

Our clocks are changed

Do we all believe our daylight is more

As we bank it in the spring 

Then come fall it’s out the door

Please, please let us stop this foolishness

For now and evermore.