A SHORT ELEGY TO HUMAN CIVILIZATION

At her grave we stand and mourn,
And think of the days of her youth,
When inventions were few,
When guns were still new,
When prudence was still precious,
And men hadn’t yet the heart of beasts

Evil has unseated reason,
Humanness lost in the abyss
Of greed and rotten isms
Sound souls have fallen away
from the simple byways
 Of truth and commonsense

Our hands made the guns,
Our labs nursed the bombs,
And our leaders helped to launch
the two wars that marred the world.

Once we knew peace and bliss
And dreamt of big and lofty things
Once we sailed into strange new worlds
Vast lands of gold, sugar, and corn.

Then the revolution came:
Machines worked harder than men,
Homes of smoke littered the globe,
Cars and trains bade bicycles bye,
Houses towered into the sky,
And knowledge peaked like a plague.

Then the awful warming came:
Sings of an impending terrible end,
Green house effect; ice melted away
Flood and famine, the order of the day,
The world sunk and kept sinking,
By our little deeds and misdeeds

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