System Change / by Brian Kunde

System Change
by Brian Kunde

A slow-down time, a take-stock time —
That’s summer as it was;
But that’s a pleasure of the past
That’s passed away, because
We’re changing systems! Yes we are!
We don’t like things the way they are!
We mustn’t stay the way we are —
What set-up ever does?

A time to study, and assess —
That’s how it used to be.
But that’s a luxury we can’t
Afford this year, as we
Like lemmings, rush into the flood!
It’s time to change! We’re sweating blood!
What if we change, and it’s a dud?
Oh my! Catastrophe!

But ways are changing, far and near,
And we must go along.
What happens elsewhere has to here,
So we must say so long
To how we did things in the past,
Though okay then, it couldn’t last:
We must have something new, and fast!
To Progress — Right or Wrong!

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System Change

Originally published in
SUL News Notes, Vol. 5, no. 20, May 31, 1996.

1st web edition posted 7/29/2008.
This page last updated 9/20/2013.