Nursery Rhymes Of Malthus And Hegel Poem by Alfred Barna

Man and woman both carry the guilt
But ordinarily women carry the burden
The world's troubles mired up to the hilt
What to do, with where we are being herded
We have entered a casino of distraction
Where we gamble away all of our cares
We are handed empty boxes of dissatisfaction
Life was a wondrous gift, and we've traded our shares
We are split in our souls to the great dichotomy
Red or Blue, Christian or Muslim, Left or Right
Where the evil that rules nudges for lobotomy
But we are all part of this great living fight
There are no battles won by destroying our empathy
For we are killing, maiming, and mistreating our own
The world is billions of manifestations of humanity
Just as the universe above as the heavens have shown
When I was a child, I was taught hate; watch it fall apart
Learned to scowl and to view us all as some plague
Burning inside, hate's a cruel balm upon the heart
Promising the answers, (death) , yet cool and vague
Then staring hard enough, to see my cold reflection
My soul melted in the mirror, shocked then to see
These extra gripping arms and I had a rejection
And this disgust and I could not embrace any more of me
Lose part of the virtual world that is keeping us in
We are Humpty Dumpty to the leaders of our nations
But they have no wish to put us together again
We can find a way to remake this world of ours
But we must not force the world into some control or cage
Perhaps arm in arm we can stretch out across the stars
We must learn to let go of our mind machines and of our rage