SAVE US
My friend finds comfort in delusion,
for he believes in evolution.
He thinks our species can progress,
and chides me for my gloom, distress.
I point to human history,
its escalating savagery.
He claims that people can still learn,
but I am hard put to discern
some progress toward our ending war
or evil ingrained in our core.
This planet fostered a mistake
and some wise beings soon must take
grave action to redeem the place
and save it from our lethal race.
Tom Greening
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A book of Tom Greening’s serious and humorous poems, Words Against the Void, is available from Amazon.com
