A New Level of Madness

 

The 21^st century: a new level of madness:

men, I would not leave to baby-sit my child,

with the shadows of their fingers stirring

above nuclear buttons. The same cold-heartedness

as Genghis, Vlad, Stalin or Hitler; the will

to wipe out, not armies, but children at their meals,

at school, in hospital wards, babies

who have still to recognize themselves.

Their lies as nature withers; our children's

futures left arid by their glory-seeking;

this civilisation in straight reverse.

We brutalise with greater ease, level homes by the city,

kill innocents in soaring numbers;

the 21^st century, and, incapable of learning,

we have given these  vainglorious men the care of our billions.