Half the mind rests
While the eye of the imagination
Lights up the darkness
Of the tragic human soul
In this twinkling sea of lights
An ocean with plastic borders
And concrete currents
As sky scrapers loom ever taller
What boundary will we fear?
As we border on the edge
Of eclipsing the decency
That lies somewhere within
Our selfish human hearts
Did we believe it our birth right
To gift us with such power that
We were not yet responsible enough to control
To prolong the existence of all life
And not just our own
As we blight this world with a lack of mercy
That we wouldn’t expect to receive ourselves
A predictable contradiction
Enshrined in the constitutions
Of this hypocritical
Democratic institutions
