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The Web Poetry Corner - Ronald G. Auguste - SHALL MEN BE SAID TO ROOT LIKE DOGS OF WAR?

SHALL MEN BE SAID TO ROOT LIKE DOGS OF WAR?

by

Ronald G. Auguste

Shall men be said to root like dogs of war,

In garbage dumps of fear and discontent

For bones of strife on which to grind their hates?

Shall it be said men's intellect is spent

In preparing their own oblivion?

Crows of unrest cast terrifying shadows

On the war-ravaged landscapes of the world,

Portentous of men's psychopathic march

Towards the final rape and holocaust

By nuclear brimstone! Will they never learn?

The broken voices of a myriad dead

Shriek dire warnings on the burning winds,

And demon vultures gather in the heavens

In preparation for the gory feasts....

Shall it be said that men are worse than beasts?

The highest born, becoming merely rinds

Of God's created fruit? Can they not discern

That all the evils rooting in their minds,

like cancers,

Threaten their very existence?

Shall men be said to root like dogs of war

For useless laurels on a useless shore?

Disseminating horrors while they abhor

The virtues of the "Brotherhood" of man --

Suppressing them within an iron cage?

Have men returned to worshipping of Pan,

Unmoved by gospels of sin's damning wage,

To bark like mongrels in God's Holy Face,

Reviling Heaven in a puny rage,

Constructing Babels to their fall from grace?

Should generations hence, mutations trace

The history of Adones, will they see it

Deep-rutted in the scarred and brutal plains

And chasmic landscapes of a hellish earth?

And have it rammed into their piteous brains

That their fore-fathers were a race of fiends,

Who drew their laughter from atomic mirth --

Creating Hell from paradisial earth?

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