Look at the World

"Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable--if anything is excellent or praiseworthy--think about such things."

~Philippians 4:8


Look at the world
What do you see?
A place for your consumption
Devouring
Greed
Look at the cracks in the pavement
Where grass once grew
New grass pure and green
You'll take from life
What you will
And leave a lowly legacy

Your mind once bright and beautiful
Now cowers in the dirt
Its longings are for worldly things
Reaping pleasure void of worth
Your heart is full of darkness and your soul is dead beneath your feet
But all you see is one more charm
To rape and eat and glean

The world rejects the beauty true
Found inside the hearts of good men
It seeks its own
And so do you
For you've lost all thought of higher things within

Good you pull into the dust
Raise evil on a throne of gold
And for a balm to ease the pain
Pension of lust 
You sell away your soul

Turn away from the darkness
Or turn away from life
You choose a fleeting ray of hollow joy
Over love and hope
And freedom good and bright

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

~Edmund Burke