Technology

We've come a long way
in the last fifty years.
The military's gay
to alleviate our fears.

There's satellites in orbit.
Subs beneath the sea.
So much I can't absorb it.
Kinda like infinity.

There's pills for giving pleasure,
for kicking down a door.
Extra pills for good measure. 
Pills that make your penis roar.

There's endless legislation
making sure that all is well.
Chronic constipation
with laws to kill the smell.

Machines that check our spelling.
Machines that park our car.
Machines designed for telling us
How long?
How fast?
How far?

We've got telescopes in space
that chart the universe
yet for the human race,
it's only getting worse.

We're overpopulated.
Undersourced.
Overplayed.
Our advances are negated
by the progress that we've made.

The feeble living longer.
The sick among us thrive.
The bee's a little stronger
but we're poisoning the hive.

We modify and alter
everything from A to Z.
When the day comes that we falter
what will be our legacy?

Will we walk a happy trail?
Sprout  feathered wings and fly?
Or will we tuck tail
curl up and die?

Will we wander through the stars?
Be swallowed by the sea?
Build a colony on Mars
or die in mediocrity?