Monday, May 9, 2022

Refuse the Legacy

My heart breaks knowing our children will live in the devil's lair
Because when we fail them by allowing the nuclear nightmare
They'll fight our wars, created by these ideological idiots
And condemn each generation thereafter for our hubris
Brave for the sake of our very small minds and pride
Calling for the extinction of our species, a suicide
And the earth will recover, never remembering
We wounded it but we never surrendered
The earth will live on, but we will not
Made ourselves into false Gods
For us, there will be no return
This scorn is entirely earned
For we've caused extinction
The banner of crimson
We have slain our own
And now we are alone
Forever more


“The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything except our thinking. Thus, we are drifting toward catastrophe beyond conception. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.” Albert Einstein