progress?

I stand and watch as time goes by,
  and progress rolls like a juggernaught
  it cares not what lives or dies
  for all that's lost is soon forgot

As pastures, fields,and woods,and glades
  turn into asphalt parking lots
  the beauty of our youth's world fades
  beneath the dozers' brute onslaughts

They come from places out of town
  drawn by a slower pace of life
  but ,once here, they scowl and frown
  if others come with child and wife

For everybody wants a place
  of peace out in the dell
  once they have thiers its a disgrace
  if thier exneighbors come as well

But as our numbers swell and grow
  we all must have a place to live
  and hence the sprawl we all hate so
  robs  land of all it has to give

The land which teemed with life and game
  never more will be the same
  the hills and hollows, now ground flat
  feel footsteps from just dog or cat 

I stand and watch as time goes by
  and rage against the change
  While all I love seems doomed to die
  I hope I pass fore all seems strange