How Did We Come To This Place

How did we come to this place?

We, Masters of Earth, Sentient and Wise,

Blundering blindly in the villainy of a cage

Crafted by the hand of our own ambition?

Out of Nature’s womb we came to this world;

Suckled and spawned at her bosom-

Yet when legs gained the strength of walk,

And feet were set to pay our debt,

We turned our gifts to choke in strife,

And spear the womb that gave us life;

So now we relish in the thrills of our lunacy:

Scorching the seed that feeds the cycle-

Shifting to the foundry of yokes, industry

Which once hummed the crafting of tools..

What about living do we detest so much,

That we pleasure in suffocating its breath?

What about peace do we deem so grating,

That we pride in warring and destruction-

Shrinking so from all prospect of knowing;

Muddying wells once springs of liberty?

Once we understood a simple truth;

That love gave purpose to breath,

Pride slithers to the hangman’s noose,

And work marked the measure of man.

The night is dark and long without light

A daunting doom assails the wailing wind

But the force that twists the branch to light,

Is far too vast for vain plot;

In the deeps of her speared belly,

Nature fashions a new breed of man:

Turn your hearts to the eyes of our little ones

A brave new world sleeps in their dreams….