How Did It Get This Bad

How did it get this bad! Siblings quarreling and squabbling over inheritance Bickering over who is better and more successful; Killing each other How did it get this bad! Senior citizens treated with disdain, loathe and contempt By younger folks Empathy and sense of affection gone with the advent of civility How did it get this bad! Motorists would rather run over pedestrians Than waste a minute in traffic Hit and run drivers a plenty How did it get this bad! Widows ostracized, castigated, chastised, Ripped off, molested and left high and dry In-laws wanting a taste of the honey pie How did it get this bad! Young girls abort with reckless abandon Ridding themselves of unwanted products Of promiscuous expedition Licentiousness on the prowl How did it get this bad! Electorates intimidated and coerced Their votes bought for stipends and Their futures jeopardized Anarchy overruling good sense of judgment How did it get this bad! Political leaders spending more on guns Than on food and citizen’s welfare Taking lives; making orphans, multiplying widows Altering the magnificent course of creation and Ascribing it to‘unpreventable collateral damage’ How did it get this bad! We annihilate migrants and call it xenophobia We murder people of one ethnic group and call it cleansing We set ablaze worship centres and call their ‘gods’ false We kill members of other religions and call them infidels HOW DID IT GET THIS BAD!