Sunday Forenoon Musing

a poem by Jan Oskar Hansen

The Western world is getting fossilized,
Yet, we don’t want any young immigrants.
The middle classes don’t get any children
Careers and material symbols of success
Are more important; women are masters
Of their bodies, abortion is an expression
Of fundamental liberty.

Unmarried women who get many children
Are vilified and left to live in penury, we
Are not going to spend our tax money on
Them, our future.

Could it be that the old man in the Vatican
Is right? Could it be that we in the Western
World are doomed to extinction by our
Material success?