The 21st 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 21st century, and, incapable of learning,
we have given these vainglorious men the care of our billions.
