Creativity is our only Salvation
We have no hope
For we are brutes;
Savages with a lust
For cruelty and destruction.
We have no hope
For we would plunder
Rather than build,
Rape rather than love.
We have no hope
Because we would rather
Watch an act of cruelty
Than enjoy a scene of beauty.
We have no hope
For our instinct
Is always
Fear, hatred and retribution,
Rather than forgiveness
And a healing hand.
Creativity
Must be
Our only
Salvation.
Opher 4.6.2016
Creativity is our only Salvation
Evolution set loose a set of rabid apes to terrorise the planet. Intelligent monkeys whose deviousness and ingenuity has been deployed to kill, plunder and coerce.
Yet, in our schizophrenic madness, we are capable of love, art, poetry and altruism.
If we could only learn to master our baser instincts and give full reign to our higher attributes we could create a paradise for all; one in which all living creatures would have their place.
I put my faith in creativity.