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The Devil Is Man

Eyes beyond mortal scale, Armoured ships upon the ocean sail; Voices charging the air's bluff As souls rises and fall to the rifle's cough So still was the air waves Survival was it the soul craves Blends of atrocities and human foolery, Calls out to thousand graves. Man scavenging Like vultures upon its prey The zeal to kill Makes his stomache fill. Heaven's call; the helpless heard Ruthless murder the soul do fear. The sounds of war in the air Soldiers trampling and unleashing fear. Nuclear weapons no one dare Virus unleashed;we pretend to care. The war brings famine And hopes unseen. Death like bird spreads its wing And to the divine the soul do cling. Man's inhumanity to man, A curse or the will to act? Was it not he who sends mushroom of clouds on Hiroshima? The epidemics that swallowed all or parts of our lives; Diseases and starvation are not far from his knowing. The injustice that ravaged the land Like a sea flood upon the sand Washing-off all footprints That we left in the hands of time. Good is bad;immorality have became moral. We feed upon oats of lie And watch silently as people die, Casting our destiny into the ocean called strife. Deep down the trench of good and bad- The scale of evil outweighs Then I come to term- That the devil is man.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2012




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