Ugliness

Ugliness lingers when beauty is gone much further divided than dusk is from dawn I reference not the figure or face but rather the heart of our lost human race We fancy ourselves as noble and great yet treat one another with hearts full of hate And day after day with greater aggression we bind ourselves up in cords of oppression The beasts of the field know nothing of pride They neither plot murders nor plan suicide No animal exploits another for gain The Earth never blackmails the sky for her rain Has any man witnessed the bigotry of the trees or the grass or a self righteous dove? So, right is now wrong and truth is a lie since when we first heard we won't surely die And ugliness is what beauty once was And man is now praised for the evil he does