Shall Mankind Ever Stop Repeating Insane Actions
Found this old poem today. Written when I was young and thought the world could change if enough humans just saw the Light.
I then did not know, that the Light must be sought and embraced if any MEANINGFUL AND LASTING CHANGES EVER OCCURS AT ALL.
Shall Mankind Ever Stop Repeating Insane Actions
Thousand years distance, Hope's Truest of Truths cheered,
in its abundance within hearts seeking only peace
Yet there also, darkest forces played loose at night
bestowing grave doubt and aches upon mankind
Amidst this chaos, peace became a lost ghost
war raced in to fill that sad and empty space
When apathy won, death became a ghastly meadow
as dancing dark demons paraded forth and jeered,
Thousand years to come, shall Hope find a repeat
where black shadows invade to destroy more lives
Never say never, for evil sails upon blackest of seas
death lurks under malignant waters set to destroy
Shall we again in arrogance welcome such Dark
raging mad in ravenous flesh destroying appetites
Or will some saving angel travel here to then appear
and our embraced insanity, with true light defeat!
Thousand years distance, Hope's Truest of Truths cheered,
in its abundance within hearts seeking only peace
Yet there also, darkest forces played loose at night
bestowing grave doubt and aches upon mankind
Amidst this chaos, peace became a lost ghost
war raced in to fill that sad and empty space
When apathy won, death became a ghastly meadow
as dancing dark demons paraded forth and jeered,
Thousand years to come, shall Hope find a repeat
where black shadows invade to destroy more lives
Never say never, for evil sails upon blackest of seas
death lurks under malignant waters set to destroy
Shall we again in arrogance welcome such Dark
raging mad in ravenous flesh destroying appetites
Or will some saving angel travel here to then appear
and our embraced insanity, with true light defeat!
R.J. Lindley,
March 22nd, 1973
Old Note- MAN'S CURSE IS HE IS DOOMED TO REPEAT, TO REPEAT, TO REPEAT HIS ACCURSED EVIL AND CALL IT ENLIGHTENMENT.
New Note Today( 44 YEARS LATER)
- MAN'S CURSE IS HE IS DOOMED TO REPEAT, TO REPEAT, TO REPEAT HIS ACCURSED EVIL AND CALL IT ENLIGHTENMENT.
Copyright © Robert Lindley | Year Posted 2017
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