The Insanity of Humanity

We spray the planet with toxins to poison insects and weeds
We’re ignorant of the poor judgment inherent in our deeds.

We endanger many species and renders some others extinct,
We do not see ‘The Big Picture’ and that all of us are linked.

We starve the soil until it’s devoid of all fertility.
In other lands, we make children slaves for our utility.

We exploit our own species and the other animals, too--
We engage in mass murder of our own, in times of old and new.

Our ‘power-hungry history of war’ spans the whole world wide.
We’ve learned to hate, and to participate in mass genocide.

We live without integrity; we choose wrong instead of right.
We make the ‘Almighty Dollar’ our God and our guiding light.

We lust after money with a materialistic greed.
Deprived fellow-humans cry for help while we ignore their need.

We will execute the trees like they are ‘growing out of style’,
never pondering the repercussions of this, all the while.

We pass through enchanted woods and leave our rubbish behind.
We limit concern for our fellow man to ones of our own kind.

We have little tolerance for other religions or races.
We believe our color is the best color for all faces.

We limit our relationships to those near to our own age,
There are several kinds of prejudice that we will engage.

We adorn ourselves with gadgets and pierce our skin for rings,
and think beauty is achieved from doing such meaningless things.

We treat the disease, but ignore the preventative measure.
We're creatures of bad habits and self-gratifying pleasure.

We settle for ‘mere sex’ rather than the ‘art of lovemaking’.
We're empty inside because ‘our passion’, we’re forsaking.

We are beings that are cruel; that inflict suffering and pain.
Our viewing of ‘animals as a commodity’ is just insane.

We have invented the telephone, the computer chip, and more,
But do not learn that ‘eating animals’ is something to abhor.

We fuel our bodies and souls with the most violent of diets,
Never thinking this may be the cause of rising city riots.

We live on top of others; like chickens in a factory farm.
While businesses pollute skies and streams, we disregard their harm.

Something we are compelled to do, is to ‘overpopulate’,
unlike animals, who when resources dwindle, cease to mate.

We will step on our comrades to make ourselves appear supreme.
All wrapped up in ourselves, we have little concern for our team.

Are we powerless to change ‘the lack of virtue’ that eludes man?
Will we ever know that yearned for ‘Peace on Earth’ in our life’s span?

Can the soul subdue the ego; can we make true our human lies?
Will we elevate and save our race, before humanity dies?

Will we annihilate ourselves with the weapons made by man?
Or will ‘we, humans’ turn it all around, as only we can?

We are endowed with rationality and a conscience within
Let our journey towards 'sanity' here and now begin.