Complex simplicity

Better...
     bigger...
          more...
all screaming for our attention
while trying to be a parent
with no apparent display of pretention.

Fighting our own tenacious desires
to be sucked into the trend,
such obvious loss of communication...
when will it ever come to end?

Less books & board games & family sharing- -
more electronics, suicide...less caring.

Popularity, wealth, desirable physique
all clawing at our beings;
let's throw off these societal pressures
and rejoice at the resultant freeings.

Lord help us squelch this crazy pace
and abundance of worldly temptations, 
refocus on what's most precious
and mend all mental abrasions.

As we traverse down luring paths
help us to truly be set free
as we hold tight to life's twisted reins
and navigate complex simplicity.