Human Nature Or Human Folly - POEM
You have a flare
for words...
You have an old
soul...
You are wise
beyond your years...
You are
intelligent...
You’re a
friendly, bubbly person
You are funny,
witty
And pretty
knowledgeable
About things in
general...
Those are
compliments,
Things anyone
might hear
On any given day,
Given, that they
have
At least one of
those traits
Worth complimenting
Think of a few
others
And throw them in
there
Mix them up
What have you
got?
Let’s call it,
good traits..
Now, think,
put on your thinker's hat,
your thinking face
Think
Of the bad, the
things
That contrast those
good traits
In polar
opposition
In stark
antagonism
While the good
ones relax
Those bad ones
work
They move and
dance
As if by their
own accord
Everyone, or
no-one,
Wonders why it’s
so
And the answer is
simple
It’s human
Nature;
An oxymoron
In itself
But it goes much deeper
Than you, and I,
and him, and her,
It overflows and seeps into
World-wide, universal reactions
We were put on this Earth
Arguably, to live in harmony
With Nature, not against it.
It should be common sense
But...it's not
We're too wrapped up
In common nonsense
You shouldn't have to be told
To consider the consequences
Of your actions on the environment
Or on your fellow man
No-one should have to spoon-feed
Grown men and women
Everyone has flaws,
Everyone makes mistakes
Even JFK wasn't perfect
This is our garden, people,
And we, it's gardeners,
If the flowers die
If the trees wither
We are no more
We won't be able to breathe
We will cease to exist
And there won't even be
An old man with white hair
And spectacles
Chronicling our mistakes
Into the annals of history
Now I hazard this,
A final question;
Is it indeed human nature
Or
Human
Folly
That causes us to exist here
On the good Earth,
Happily and selfishly,
With blinkers on,
Ruining it
And not even thinking about
Nature,
human
or otherwise
There's only one Earth
and many of us
Think about that....
© Dean R Boic
2016 (Image of Earth burning courtesy of Alternet.org)
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