“The Legacy Of Sin”

If men were here ten trillion years

The thing we’d learn the best

Would not be love or happiness

Or anything so sweet

The only skill in which we excel

Is finding more efficient ways to kill

From our start we don’t look for peace

You’d think we’d learn to enjoy life

We covet this, we must have that,

We’ll get it anyway we can

We’ll do anything to posses what brings

Pleasure to ourselves

It seems to be an easy thing to get along

To tolerate each other

But if you have what I want you will learn

That I will take what I want from another

Such is the state of things between each other.

The lessons of ten trillion years are the same as

Four billion more or less

Wars are fought for covetousness if one wants what

Rightly belongs to another.

The legacy of sin.

© Sam Hyde

05-30-11