Mankind's Greatest Mystery (Inspired By Chris Higgins)

If 2012 prophesies prove true And Earth’s life cycles again renew Mysteries of man will be more than a few Challenges may await future life forms With intellects far surpassing our norm Created to live without doing harm For if they decipher man’s history What will they make of our great mystery The one we refer to as bigotry Black labs, gold retrievers live side by side Wild stallions and mustangs on prairies ride Both red ants and black, free to colonize Man’s refusal to accept differences To wiser beings may make no sense What in man’s makeup can give it credence? Earth’s subsequent creatures may reproduce Not needing two sexes to call a truce So mating rituals may be pursued A single-sex species might not comprehend Why women workers were paid less than men And why “free speech” was not just a given Questions would most certainly arise How a believer in God denies Rights to free worship without compromise And how could so many wars be waged Evoking God’s name in death-march crusades With killing, torturing in every age Indeed such mysteries in man’s history Would leave a perplexing legacy Sure to confound any new species New cultures may thrive on diversity Of religion and genealogy And speak of our inferiority Note: This is dedicated to Christopher Higgins whose poems about prejudice inspire readers to do more than just think about one of the greatest ills in our society.