Minds Morally Blind and Unkind

Deceit and duplicity, vengeance and vanity Exploit our weaknesses and dissipate our souls’ strength As arrogance cockroaches multiply their insanity We diminish the strength of our faith The more we immerse ourselves in new technologies Stung by advances in artificial intelligence Deluding our ignorance and bestowing empty eulogies On partners we loathe despite pangs of conscience That work harder to retain a semblance of humanity In souls gone dead and mad with material wealth Accumulated and concealed from established authority In the mistaken belief that the theft we perpetuate in our stealth Shan’t leave a trail auditors will pursue In our bid to aggrandize an increasingly hollow ego Gone insensitive and unreceptive to the moral malaise and torture that ensue As the moral compass hitherto central to our lives we forgo In preference for catalyzing the rat race that the vulnerable Crush underfoot To splurge with disgust as the horrible and the irascible Thrive in the sight of the sycophants we recruit As cheerleaders With unabashed shame In the midst of death traders and peddlers On whom we’re not able to pin blame Cos together we rot In body and mind Our consciences bought and caught Up in webs of ego-tripping that render us morally blind and unkind.