What
Happened to Humankind?
Have we
devolved from humankind
to the human race
racing from city to city
on jets, trains, buses,
cars racing
to buy and sell everything
from toilet paper to sex
dolls?
Have we
descended from humankind
to the human race
competing with other species
over habitat
and within our own species
fighting over territories?
Are we racing
now into a new arms race,
from Cold War on Earth
to weapons in Outer Space?
Have we disintegrated
from humankind to the
human race
women in the US military
in the Green Berets,
Navy Seals, and the Delta
Forces learning to be
professional killers as
brutal as their male counterparts?
Human race,
what happened to Planet
Earth?
Did the human race wipe
out humankind?
Its poetry, films, music,
dance, theater, mathematics,
sciences, engineering,
healing arts, philosophy
gone?
To kill such a jewel in
the Kosmos,
human race, what did you
do?
Why destroy creatures
that are
capable of love, beauty,
and truth?
Or were
their arts never, truthful,
beautiful,
and wise enough to save
their world?
Over population, illiteracy,
starvation, homelessness,
pollution, drug addiction,
prostitution, insanity,
and
violence are all the side
effects of a race without
kindness.
Did humankind forget the
way true love manifests
world happiness?