What perfection has man created
Where once priests served out
the church's absolution
to all that bowed and paid
and now a devil's lackey sprinkles
with presidential pardons
for his offspring and his toadies
What perfection has man created
Where governments economize
on housing, on caring for the needy
but never on privileges for the greedy
and condemn a disturbed homeless
when he, left to his own devices, drives
his metal home into a shopping crowd
What perfection has man created
Where we must pray to a distant God
for benevolence, mercy and charity
because these values no longer
exist in the heart of fellow man
-or did they ever-
but for some altruistic few
What perfection has man created
Where clemency will be a single trip to Mars
to fence off a future corporate patronage
of either mandatory consumer prodigality
to support the cashing in of shareholders
or starve as cheap enforced self-employment
for simple slaves are considered to costly to keep
What perfection has man created
Where we party on in corona-proof omnibuses
where we fly budgeted all over to forget ourselves
where we step uncaring over every 'shadow' fallen
where we donate pittance to charity as a tax purpose
where 'peace on earth' has degraded to 'feast on earth'
where those that truly try to do good are as rare as saints
What perfection has man created
Where one just worries about the Koala, the Gorilla, the Whale..
...and understands and forgives the absence of the Omnipresent
for neither of them see reason to stay, return to or safe this society
as they die a little with each innocent death of man, animal or plant
both fled in cocooning while they welcome the holy in their sanctuary
and all those weary saints and angels who belong to the realm of death
© 2020-12-05
Note from the author.
Yes, I know there are still millions
and millions of good, honest people
but it's these billions and billions
of others we've got to loose!!
