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Dante's Revenge

The lyrical tradition
Often entails sowing sedition
When things are like unto
The nine layers of hell,
And you can't even tell
If evil is literal or
Metaphorical anymore.
Some say its human nature
But Hell couldn't be any worse
Than the atrocity we spread
In the end, like the philosopher said
Tis only the quick and the dead
Who have seen the end to this curse
Human nature at its worst, in verse,
Sewing hate, fear, misery, and war.
Hate, anger, greed, disdain in
The poor's greatest time of need,
As they pocket their millions
From the suffering of billions,
And the devil laughs all the way
To the bank, the only one to thank
Is ourselves for lazy complacency
In the face of obvious amoral tyranny
The poet is laughing at the irony.

Posted: Sat Oct 3, 2009 11:14 PM CST