Original Design

Your're older and your're bolder 
And you want to feel so fine 
With broken days behind you 
As you plod on down the line. 

Too late for speculation 
On the madness of the past. 
You know the end is coming 
And the end is coming fast. 

So try to get a handle 
On the guilt and on the shame 
There is no way to change it 
As it stays part of the game. 

All prayers for man's perfection 
As a species have no hope; 
Inferior evolving 
Up the evolution slope. 

Man's arrogance is legend 
In the annals of the earth 
And every other creature 
Pays the price for human birth. 

There is a basic failure 
In original design; 
A lot of shallow people 
Should take time to realign. 

Mankind no longer focused 
On his future needs to thrive 
Yet nature fights for balance 
So all creatures can survive. 

When engineers build bridges 
They correct mistakes they make, 
But man gets no corrections 
Since young Eve seduced a snake!
Copyright © | Year Posted 2011

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