AGE of ASININITY

All life had a creative past
Exclusively; ours didn’t last.
Destroying life just has to be
The Age of Asininity.
When given birth by “Why am I?”
Our ‘parents’ feared not knowing why.
Unknowns they’d learned they should avoid
And so they tried to fill the void.
Descendants tried throughout the years
To stem their ever mounting fears.
In doing so humanity
Defined the word “insanity”.
Results of tries remained unchanged
Despite how they were rearranged.
In vain attempts to fill the void
Most of the past we have destroyed.

We’re giving ‘Mother’ such abuse
It seems we think ‘She’ has no use.
To warn us all of our neglect
‘She’ cries alone with no effect.
In places ‘tears’ don’t reach the ground,
So there’s less water to be found.
And where rain does come down it teems
Creating rivers out of streams.
And now ‘her’ floods and droughts we learn 
Are caused by fossil fuels we burn.
The droughts dry trees which burn to death
Depriving Nature of her breath.
The heat adds yet another price.
It’s melting all of Nature’s ice.
The melting ice and falling rain
Fill oceans that ‘She’ can’t contain.
The rising oceans shrink ‘Her’ land
So there’s less space for us to stand.
Then too no matter how they try
‘Her’ ice dependent life will die.

We cut down trees we need to breathe;
And toxins in ‘Her’ soil we leave.
Pollution we dump in the sea
Creates huge zones where life can't be.
Where life could be not much is seen;
With mining ships we strip it clean.
More offspring we give ‘Her’ to feed
Despite the fact ‘She’ can’t succeed.
Our poisons also fill the air
At rates that show we do not care.
Pretending that we are concerned
About ‘Her’ breakdown we have learned,
We just reveal insane intent
Protecting only 10%.

While risks of global warming rise
As CO2 clouds fill the skies
We put Economy ahead
Of forecasts that will leave us dead.
It's asinine for us to place
Life on this economic base
So life success and failure rides
On what Economy decides.
One billion of us fail life's test,
Seventy million pad a nest,
The rest of us "fight tooth and nail"
To get ahead so we'll prevail
Despite the fact that at our end
The cash we save we cannot spend.

Now think of all the ways we try
In vain to answer "Why am I?"
It matters not which ways we’ve picked,
With all the others they conflict.
They are a constant source of strife
Resulting in the loss of life.
Some try on paths that are well trod
To fill the void with given 'God',
While others say, "I live to prove
Belief in God we should remove."
To keep minds occupied we trust
Philosophies of men now dust.
We spend on stuff without a pause;
Seek information just because.
With jobs we try to give life ‘breath’.
We eat in ways that cause our death.
Take drugs to manage excess weight
We wouldn't gain with Nature’s ‘plate’.
For love and family we search;
Look for a peak on which to perch
Though finding it means we create
Inequity that we debate.
When drugs, booze, sex and games we play
Fear of the void cannot allay,
We travel into outer space
Or down to that Titanic place.

Then when we still find no relief
We fight, defending our belief.
This way creates so many fights
In our defence of human ‘rights’
That if I have to make the call,
Is the most asinine of all.
To think we actually believe
Demanding our own 'rights' won't leave
Humanity in such knots tied
Just leaves me very mystified.

Democracy gives us the choice
To speak with a divided voice.
Self-rightness is the only tool
By which the many parties rule.
Because “divided we will fall”
Our voting makes no sense at all.
Democracies that we maintain
Is leaving no doubt we’re insane.
And insane talk of unity
Just measures our insanity
Until we’re willing to give up
Belief systems that fill our ‘cup’
With similar divisiveness
We try to bridge without success.

Countries have armies to be sure
All "rights" and "values" are secure.
When under threat we go to war.
To be insane we can’t do more.
Although we don’t call war a crime,
For reasons that are without rhyme
We call each war activity
A crime against humanity.
But what is right in killing for
The make-believe that we adore?
We're nuts to think that we are right
To love all those who join our fight
And think as well that it's ok
To hate those who don't go our way.
While this corrupted thought remains
It will continue to cause stains
From bloody fights that will persist
Until we all cease to exist.

Indeed we're truly asinine
To think our way of life is fine;
That though there's lots to fight about,
If we sit tight life will work out.
We're in a race that time might win.
Who knows if losing is a sin?
There is no way that we can tell.
My guess is though it will be hell
Unless our thoughts we rearrange
To make this necessary change.
Each individual must thrive
To have Humanity survive.

Beliefs we have but just cause strife
We must cast from the void in life,
For tries to fill this emptiness
Are making our life meaningless.
The empty void is the ideal.
Its drag we will no longer feel.
We'll soar as if on "eagle's wings";
"Reach out..." to where our spirit 'sings'.
"Ideal life" is most challenging;
But if we all the same 'song' sing
With our unique capacity,
We'll be, in Nature's symphony.

I wonder, will we turn the page;
Or will this be our Final Age?

edited 04/30/24

common sense is common; extraordinary sense is extremely rare

OUR LIFE LINE (reasoned prose)
TRUMP ‘16, BIDEN ‘20, NATURE ‘24 (rhymed reason)
ABORTION (rhymed reason)
ANALYZING CONFLICT (rhymed reason)
NATURE’S NUTRITIONAL IDEAL (reasoned prose)
RACISM (rhymed reason)
COVID-19 vie er US (rhymed reason)
ARRESTING CLIMATE CHANGE (rhymed reason)
KNOWLEDGE and ESSENTIAL FACTS (rhymed reason)
DEMOCRACY: the death of us (rhymed reason)
LIFE: a reaction to the void (rhymed reason)
CLIMATE BREAKDOWN (rhymed reason)
ECONOMY (rhymed reason)
THE LAST WHY: the poem (rhymed reason)
DEMOCRACY: a debacle (rhymed reason)
OUR HISTORY and THE LAST WHY (reasoned prose)
AGE of ENTERTAINMENT (rhymed reason)
MY POETRY (rhymed reason)
TOGETHER (rhymed reason)
LAW of HUMAN NATURE (rhymed reason)
ALCOHOL, DRUGS, SEX and other anesthetics (rhymed reason)
RELIGION (rhymed reason)
SEX (rhymed reason)
AFTERLIFE (rhymed reason)
HAPPINESS (rhymed reason)
ALONE: an anthem for humanity (rhymed reason)
WAR on PEACE (rhymed reason)
SOLDIER’S LAMENT (rhymed reason)
LOVE (rhymed reason)
JESUS’ SONG (rhymed reason)