Our Faith, Our Folly

 Our Faith, our Folly

In these alien times,
We're simmering
As a cauldron, left,
On the furnace of faith.

The angst, has spilled ov'er,
Permeating the atmosphere,
Contaminating it, with rancor,
Suffusing it with distrust, anger and hate.

The disparities are drawn firmly,
Widening the chasm,
Creation of all the 'Isms' of
Cosmos.

Peace is a chimera,
What will it cost us..
The Earth, the Sky, the last drop of our blood..?

We are here on this planet on borrowed time,
To inhabit for a while,
Not forever,
The Eternal and ever present Divinity,
Observes our folly,
The irony, that we deduce,
We're infallible..!

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