The State of Humaity

I wrote this in couplets. This is a poem meant to reveal the baseness of humanity. I want you to read this and from it become introspective upon yourself. I want you to meditate on it this poem.

I live in a world of extreme confusion

Of self-interest, discrimination, and hopeless delusion

Yet this as it seems is a world that they love

That there is nothing better, not even God above

They make it pertain to the absolutes of themselves

And then place their theories on the highest of shelves

Forcing those who wish for sight to believe without knowing

So they ignorantly continue down a river of lies, a-rowing

The cycle is endless, the illusion stubborn held

Happiness is something to themselves they cannot weld

They deny what rebukes them, and they know what they deny

And continue their life riding on an immoral high

Those who believe they are right attempt to find

What truth they say gives sight to those who are blind

Though these are just as fooled as the rest

Goodwill and warm feelings are their tools, not a test

What they desire is more people, more minions to the cause

They attempt to treat a wound that needs more than just gauze

This truth of theirs is no more then insincere talk

Many are placed in it and find great holes in their walk

There is no wish for a real understanding

Those who cross lines receive a reprimanding

But that never happens, because what they have is too dear

So they instill in their followers a subliminal fear

That answering certain questions or asking certain ones

Would be considered too far, and make them undone

And here I sit, watching us all

Wondering why we stopped short of truth, and took the great fall

When they first looked at the gap of the bottomless abyss

Did they think they could jump in and find true bliss?

When across the gap, right before their eyes was a light

That truly could have provided ease to their mortal plight

Did they think they could use the light across that they saw

To lure those into a pit of ice that does not thaw

To distort their beliefs and freeze further thought

To make sure they do and say what they ought

Well, congratulations you fiends, you have succeeded

And any further mental progress impeded

You have tripped those who could have been great

And have given them a destiny that was not fate's

And as for you, deceivers of all, who pray on those most naïve

You who pester, push, and bear down without reprieve

You would brutally trick with great delight

A great mass of fools who do not know what to fight

And once you have them in your enslaving grasp

You bite into them with venom more potent than an asp

Then the venom courses through their hearts and minds

And they begin to believe that all other thoughts are what bind

They become more seduced into this way

And think that all others with their lives must pay

If they refuse the deceiver's lies

They cry “This man must surely die

“For he is not one of us

“And wishes against it with great fuss

“So we must now give him great strife

“For we must surely end his life”

And off they go with that man

To have his life ended at the executioner's hand

And here I sit, watching us all

Wondering why we stopped short of truth, and took the great fall

Ah, you, you thought I had left you out

You hypocrites, oh so vile, who flaunt about

I bet you hear my words and think “who, me?”

Yes, you, there is no one else it could possibly be

And there you sit, wearing your mask

Appearing popular is no small task

You chameleon, you liar, you selfish brat

Who thinks him or herself to be all that

Simply because you can change your face

And change it to suit the needs of a different social race

You who would say you are better than a liar, than a thief

Better than an adulterer, than a bringer of grief

Better than a slanderer or an idol worshiping fool

My friend, you are indeed quite the ignorant tool

Upon the sinner you would shout shame and scorn

And then upon yourself the same sin adorn

For the sake of your image, for the sake of your fame

For the desire to stay great and join the new game

You would slander your friends and those you hold dear

So that your image is kept and losing it you would not fear

You have deceived yourself immensely, and therefore abstain

From any form of introspection to see the sin you contain

And yes, you, hiding in far in the back

The coward who thinks “I shall be free from attack

“If do not search for conflict, agree with everyone I see

“If I let others do the work, and avoid paying the fee.”

Hide is what you do, you even duck from the ocean spray

So long as hiding helps you live another day

Self preservation is your greatest desire

Therefore you flee from situations that may seem dire

And leave those who would suffer great pain

In order so that in good health you will remain

The tyrant would conquer, bring suffering to all

And you would seek shadow and never stand tall

Against that which is wrong and brings great destruction

You do not care if the number of your friends enters reduction

In your hole, forever you would stay

Until the whole of creation succumbs to decay

And here I sit, watching us all

Wondering why we stopped short of truth, and took the great fall

And you, oh man of ignorance be

Would quickly ignore all philosophy

You would prefer to turn your head from all this

So that you can remain in your state of foolish bliss

To all arguments you pay no attention

For your foolishness would be interrupted by dissension

Yet you still strive to put in your opinion

And all talk you are engaged in must be your dominion

You gladly present your own form of correction

Though your search for knowledge is subjected to rejection

The gaining of true knowledge would be your undoing

And that day would be the day of your great ruing

For you would see the great pain and strife in this world of ours

The discord and discrimination displayed before you like fading flowers

Your barrier of foolishness would be shattered easier than glass

So you remain in your ignorance till you wither like the grass

Now you, and finally you, oh greatest sinners of mankind

Your souls readily away to hell you have signed

The betrayers of man and God, the Devil's true b******s

You who would cut off the hands of your benevolent master

You who would slit the throat of your very brother

You who would burn the living body of your mother

You who take advantage of your sister

You whose soul doth greatly blister

You who would throw off a ledge your own father

All these sins to your soul are no bother

You would willingly do evil against your friend

And see that he meets a vile and gruesome end

You who would spit in the face of your very God

And then attempt to dismiss him with a foundationless facade

You who would put out the fire of a rebellion most right

And leave the rebels in the hand of a ruthless night

You who would tear down the walls of your own nation

And usher in a violent and destructive infestation

The world and the life that lives upon it is yours

You enslave what you wish and decimate what you abhor

Most corrupt of the corrupt, your will would doth send

The destruction of the ages and bring all life but yours to an end

What matters is you, you are the culmination of the rest

Bound by pride and selfishness, what opposes you, you detest

There is nothing that would stop you, if given the chance

Every sin you would use to build up your broken stance

And here I sit, watching us all

Wondering why we stopped short of truth, and took the great fall

Though, the answer now to me has been found

We are human and sin strongly to us is bound

It's strange how we speak of freedom when all we do is sin

We seem to have forgotten or dismissed the state we are truly in

A state of depravity, one we all know too well

One that shames us directly to the place of suffering called hell

And so we act out of fear utilizing what we say we despise

To hopefully avoid our inevitable, unexpected, and untimely demise

Yet, sadly and unsurprisingly we have all failed

Our selfishness prevents us from seeing past our own veils

So we continue in the state we are in

Desiring to survive by adorning each spoken of sin

We have decided our fate and forgotten where we must go

Though this is a knowledge none of us wish to know

To be shown we are fallen and cannot attain our own salvation

But for this we must look to maker of life and creation

And here I sit, still watching us fall

But thanking God for saving the few of us from death that takes all

Once we were alive, but now we are dead and no more

Some are dragged to hell, but some to heaven soar

Author's Note

I'm open to all critiques.