Where have all the playgrounds gone?

Why are all the playgrounds disappearing?
Why is the sound of children laughing no longer reaching my hearing?
Have we counted the cost of innocence lost?
Have we seen the error of our ways?
As society decays the children no longer play.
Where have all the playgrounds gone?
Remembered only in the words of this poem?
Replaced by TV, video games and movies?
Where have all the playgrounds gone?
They’ve gone the way of the family –
broken, shattered, no longer to be
Where have all the playgrounds gone?
When a city has more topless bars than playgrounds,
something’s wrong.


Lam:2:11