Accidental Poet

Where Is Our Humanity?

All through the history of man

Confrontations would arise

Cavemen with clubs

And fierce warnings in their eyes

 

Modern man so far from

His barbaric ancestor

And yet has he to learn

To tame his wild temper

 

That his anger

Should feed on itself

And fear is power he craves

In his new found wealth

 

Over thousands of years

Weapons in the hands of man

Warriors eager to kill

Blood spills where they stand

 

A powder that burns

In quantity it explodes

Bullets propelled

When in the barrel it loads

 

The right to bear arms

A law as old as the hills

Don’t argue with the trigger

No matter of the life it kills

 

Why then

In this day and age

Must man need weapons

The tools of his rage

 

By now modern man

Should know the value of peace

With respect for all life

For all wars to cease

 

All too often

Someone dies from a bullet

We could make laws to protect life

But will it?

 

It would seem that

He who worships the trigger

Spreads this infectious disease 

Morally, it just doesn’t figure

 

Who are we to bring end to

Mother Nature\'s serenity?

The lifeforce to planet Earth

Where is our humanity?

 

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