Homo Not-So-Sapiens

Humanity’s first born child Sits, wondering what to do First Africa, then the world, the seven seas And then space - the final frontier He’s the first in line for world domination, But first he’s got to put the competition To extinction A lion never apologised, For being majestic Nor will a blue whale ever, For being gigantic, But for being human however, I am apologetic The burden of knowing, The gift of dreaming, Of loving, Tragic On a quest for subsistence An ape stumbled upon reason And evolved logic To escape the prehistoric Ironic We came down from the trees, To go up skyscrapers And formulated mathematics To go supersonic Into a space age so scientific Magic We the Philosophers, Poetic World War I needed a sequel, Dramatic To impact on our conscience, Neurotic Or did it? Psychotic So we his offsping have conquered, Prolific We the party animals, Problematic We the immortals, Titanic