Clearly Stated

in ancient times,

some kind of anarchy reigned

tribes roamed where the animals did

they hunted, they gathered

and never lived past thirty-five

and yet as time marched on,

humanity civilized and centralized

and the states rose and fell

and the people rallied around

the crown and the leader when

the chaos came about

and when the chaos went,

they clutched onto

the traditions that carried

them through the darkness

that darkness where the

bands of thugs and thieves

roamed and ravaged

the darkness that made

the word anarchy into

a state of being,

not a philosophy worthy of

investigation or implementation

yet order from chaos occurred

spontaneous or not,

order breeds centralization

because chaos brings out

the worst in humankind

and as time has become distant

from prehistory, the view of

what was has become dim,

tarnished, corrupted

yet the view from now is

nasty and negative,

brutish and beguiling,

short and sedentary

and still likely correct

we are a species based

in an unkind, unforgiving

universe and our nature

mirrors that reality

and yet we have thrived

somehow, anyhow despite

what recent history has stated

about that nature

whatever happens happens

and whatever happened happened

humankind is a species of

story, color and belief

and on it goes,

on it goes until oblivion hits

we are morally ambiguous,

territorially ambitious

and terribly seditious

the coin of two heads

from the anarchistic start

to the absolute bitter end

the penultimate theme

clearly stated