The Age of Man

The Age of Man We carried on The age of man Till moon of tin bore An electric sun And all machines Shone bright and clean Keeping silent But wanting more Till the purpose mind Did loose its time In idle waves lament Through prostitution of evolutions A self induced torrent Took his mind till eyes fell blind Unraveled the very core To spit it bright into the night Every secret that endured Till all the stars fell off in drought Withered at the root Every galaxy was brought to knee By the embassy we took And God came down To spy our crown In towers that we command As every tree Laid low to be A place that we should stand While all the earth Gave up its worth Mountains fell to sand But those machines All we could see God left us standing there So gathering the ways Of all his days His books and all his score Scattered it high into the sky Into the cloud he stored Every thought That effort bought By page, pen and grave And set to fire By all his ire Knowledge eons gave While dirt of earth gave up its worth Lay idle, a broken land Gave lifeless life unto the night And Metal, a full command Till from the hearth soulless marched The field of Mars and woe To stand in line as engines grind In that womb steel did grow From something other Than a loving mother A milk of gasoline In burning oil and writhing toil A demon she did wean So the thought machine Did kiss our dream As man must lay to rest But that unblinking eye Our thoughts did spy And developed its own interests And not one of we Did need to be Said that steel abhorrent pet And once the master, fell fast, then faster Until not one of we were left An an age for I The lidless eye Not troubled by truth or dare Stays unseen By human being And continues its lifeless stair Till rain came down from man made cloud In that fog the Godless kept All the ways until that day And away it all was swept