This Far - So Far

No need to look round – the signs are all gone

roads are off the map – only the dead-end

with names that stand like old graveyard tombstones

keeping stories only the morbid tend

History loves a twist of fate with its dates

and so he was born - on the day she died

it’s how being lost -  creates the unknowns

no origin  - or cause nor factors tied

One must survive –  silence in nothingness

the black spaces between everythingness

understand the inferno contains zones

nine levels of virtue and evilness

There is death by idle thought in limbo

there is total blindness in lustful eyes

starvation in gluttony;  doleful greed

Intolerance in angry - violent hands

Wealth; industry profit  weaves heresy

against natural selection – balance

fraudulent and treacherous mouths mislead

using political song spewed in screed

Where are all the gods;  They never lived here

Who is god;  she is him - her -  them - us -  all

a baby’s cry - child’s laugh  - old; sick in need

the seas - the mountains - the forests indeed

And humanity’s place in universe

one forth of a second in cosmos year

one of twenty one million counting beads

religion - wars – tribal angst belie needs

Odds of a full minute to survive human deeds

are dire -  the cosmos will little note seeds

destroyed in the self made infernos

of divested cultures – this far, so far.

Look around wars and hate are plentiful

leaders are suited mongers of derange

time has taken to odd hence – too strange

silence; meditation - grace merciful

Green tea served by the hands of mother

at eon table of reclamation

the feast fare consists of one another

the white plates stained in depredation.