HUMANITY

Humanity has deserted this land
It does seem
The sacrifice of the self for the whole
A now defunct creed

Injustice and avarice abound
Where the basket is never full
And envy gnaws the flesh
To the bone

The mentality and ethics of man
Has been corrupted by hypocrisy
We say what we do not believe
And live according to no creed

Celebrity is our greatest aim
A token of modern intellectual backwardness
And a symbol of short term fame

Those in power disappoint
At every turn
The trodden wish to rebel
But are a dysfunctional crew

The great are cocooned
By their own sense of superiority
Voted into dominance
By we
With license to imprison the minds and will
Of lesser men

The hearts of the populace is but a cache of amoral
And selfish aims
Where money is best
And brotherhood is worthless

Self-preservation is the individual's
Badge of honour and his pinnacle of achievement
Save thy-self first is everyone’s mantra

Immediate and individual gains
Ill gotten
Have numbed man's feelings
Reducing each person’s worth
To monetary terms

The togetherness that is often espoused
Is a mere pawn used only for advancement
Advocated only by snake oil men
Who lavish praise when
Censure would do

Insincerity usurps
Moral grounding and social consciousness
An earthly heaven
Peopled by god-men
With no ethereal grounding
Emboldens man

King of his hill is he
This modern man
Faith in the religion of here till infinity
Blinkers objectivity
The race to conquer all is
Man’s new philosophy

The new measure of posterity
And all knowing god
Naught but a banner showcasing
Headline news

A heady enthusiasm for fame
Creates comical spectacles
Thus eroding man’s credibility
At odds with the effervescent praise
That litters his reality

Compromised ideals entangled
With pseudo enlightenment
Displays man's fickleness
And his descent into a world
Of excitable flummery

What hope is here for humanity?
Constantly bombarded by
Over blown hysterical tripe
The minions who consciously wish to be led
Develop a sense of injustice and dis-calm
As hollow as their intellect

Faith in and praise for the
New era of socialism
Which gives political antics
A new coat
Shows little stamina
For deeper connective thought
The new soul of man
Is the balance of his account

Life is but a grim reality
Of wants and needs
Un-satiated
The daily life
A most dismal theatre

Is there no hope for society?
To forget your sense of community
To have no social conscience
And no compassion
Is to live a life most sterile and dull

Live together
Be as one
Advance and prosper as a whole