A Race Like No Other

A poem depicting humanity and painting a picture of the characteristics that make humans so unique to other forms of life.

 

A race that is bound by no intrinsic code;

Morality, as it wishes, comes and then goes.

Fear strikes the heart to live among such beings,

For this presence their Creator must have a hidden meaning.

The world in seconds could they bring to an end,

Then rise from the ashes to begin their lives again.

A kind that is unique, alike to no other.

Truths untold do they persist to uncover;

Yet for all of the wisdom that they hold in hand,

The simplest of truths they fail to understand.

Their enemy transforms from age to ceaseless age,

Continually taking new form, changing its shape.

What foe could be their present living hell?

It is by evidence their very own selves.

If ruin finds this race it will be their own design,

From their own weaknesses they will fail to survive.

Important as they seem they are only just a phase,

The universe will stand before and after their days.

All threats of attack they have fought to withstand,

A race known by all as the race of man.

 

Reviews

[paddy d daly]

philosophical is the word that comes to mind as I read this, you raise many questions,
deep and thought provoking also come to mind,
I will definitely read this again and probably again