What Have We Become

What Have We Become?

1.
What have we become?
We call ourselves civilized
Maybe to some
We've left the mechanized
And become so dumb
Become so computerized
But our minds so numbed
Are still cluttered with evil
With sparks
To lend an ear to the devil

2.
How so-called civilized are we when
From bottom to top
We're ready to criticize our fellow men
At a hat's drop
Before we can count from one to ten
We can't stop
So illogical
To pass judgment before a trial
So quickly
Reinforcing it with every denial

3.
Look at us
We see ourselves as sophisticated
More than plus
But our brains are still mechanized
Full of pus
And old biases still to be eradicated
In space
We're proud of our every achievement
On earth
And we've destroyed our environment

4.
Some of us are advanced and powerful
Yet they moan
Use their position and become hateful
Like a bad bone
It's scary when power becomes spiteful
On their own
Bringing the downtrodden
Down to their humble bent knees
Becoming blind
Seeing the forest and not the trees

5.
We wrap ourselves in our own compartment
In invisible cages
We have come far yet lack good judgement
Behaving like sages
Achieving less in the thinking department
And other stages
As we idle
Drooling and end up doodling
Paying no heed
Whom do we think we are fooling?

6.
Even the young and the innocent
Becoming real asses
We are always sheer hell bent
Making obscene passes
For our own selfish fulfillment
Trampling the masses
Abusing our women
Coloureds and natives
Abusing children
Using many superlatives

7.
We're trying to find out what's up there
With A1 technology
They say it's the survival of our welfare
Yet no one can see
Our numerous earthly problems here
Like the economy
Like the rich
And the haves and the have-nots
Like politicians
Using words, promises and buts

8.
We try hard to make contact
With the unknown
But down here we fail to act
With our very own
We can't communicate is a fact
We can't set the tone
With the Nazis of that despotic regime
Skinheads, shitheads as we dilly dally
With war lords, druglords, just scums
As we're held hostages here emotionally

9.
We haven't learnt with our fellow man
To appreciate life
Fighting one another whenever we can
With mean strife
Leaping farther than the eye can scan
With our knife
Still prejudiced
As we pray and play in close hypocrisy
Yet through our veins
All have red blood flowing profusely

10.
We've come along way looking fine
But look behind
At the bread-line and the soup-line
Trying to find
Whilst the above thinking only of mine
With an eye so blind
What have we become?
Scorning the homeless in city shelter
And the handicapped
As the sick and lame run helter skelter

11.
With hearts as black as tar
Inept gov'ts. neglecting their population
And spent most money on war
Let their country-men die of dehydration
And aid has to come from afar
From others to prevent mass starvation
What have we become?
Are these men or weevils?
To turn their backs
On their wretched peoples?

12.
When the Hippocratic oath is discarded
By our medical doctors
Behaving as if they are mentally retarded
Becoming defilers
Abusing women who once regarded
These professionals as healers
It's more than a medical shame
When in this field we lose respect for those
Whom we unequivocally blame
For our medical and all emotional throes

13. (5th Part)
Do we only feel when we are hurting?
When the ones involved
Are our own kith and kin that are dying
Do we feel absolved?
When we help 'cause it's embarrassing
Or let it be resolved
By the living
When folks of our own native land
Are dying
And we can't give a helping hand?

14.
What have we done to our history?
When the truth we do twist
To give heroic pictures to our story
Clouded by an irregilous mist
As we colour our patriots with glory
Ridiculing the others on the list
Making the Battle of the "Little Big Horn" a curse
As the General Custer made his last stand between
Defiant Sitting Bull and the cagey Crazy Horse
Wiping out 261 soldiers, Majors Reno and Benteen

15.
What have we become when we change
Documents to please our command
When we still can't find the range
The big damage a little bullet did and
How after 35 years, so strange
Experts are still trying to understand
What happened that fatal day
When in Dallas they shot Kennedy
Even the experts would not say
It was a disgraceful conspiracy

16. (6th part)
The Neo-Nazis are forming their bases
Preachers of the non-existence of the Holocaust
Making a come-back in some places
These apologies are repeating the painful past
And many are turning away their faces
At the awesome Ausshwitz memories which'll last
The same belief which gassed 30 million Jews
Are camouflaged today as ethnic cleansing
The folks of Serajevo and Bosnia can't choose
And evil prosper when good men do nothing

17.
How can we allow our children
To be snatched under our noses
By fat, grown, hairy-assed men
Evil down to their ugly dirty toes
Who abuse our young women
Worshipping Satan as he goes
These scum of our society with denials
Using the law to escape their schemings
Wasting tax-payers money on their trials
For these apologies of human beings

18.
What have we attained
When our youths so course, show
Their stench so drained
As we hear every day on the radio
On Drs. Laura and Brown shows
Where our young women, oh oh!
Their horny hormone just flows
Thinking with their vaginas
Recoiling souls of their forefathers.

19. (7thpart)
Can we teach our kids about decency
When our leaders die by assassination
Because of their civil rights policy
When we do not like their pigmentation
Trying to turn back the hand of history
Just because some have might
To stifle his dreams
The Rev. Martin Luther was murdered
When he told the truth
Then Malcolm X belief was destroyed

20.
What have we become when we clamour
With no shame
For Gold from rich Brazil without amour
To you it's the same
But to others who never tasted the glamour
It's more than a game
That gold was mined with chemicals
That gold on your neck and your fingers
Has already taken million lives
By poisoned mercury in the Amazon waters

21.
Look what is the result
When we worship the devil and the dead
A real ungodly insult
When we moved away from the Godhead
To a no-name brand cult
When to witchcraft our souls we shed
Making it the order of the day
Is this the end of the world
When lesbians, homos have more say
As their evil flag they unfurl?

22. (8th part)
Man the killer
Who destroys everything
Man the eater
Who eats anything
Who leaves nothing
Who destroys the fauna
Kills the whales and dolphins

23.
Man the taker
Who destroys the flora
Will have to pay for his sins
What've we become we've changed
So very little
Is it because we are racially deranged?
Becoming brittle
When Negro-lynching was not so strange
As we whittle
At disadvantages
Now it is encouraged surreptously
As we whoop, holler and shout
As heads are turned as churches burn
As disadvantages are carried out

24.
How careless can man become
To have eyes and not see
When the gov't look after only some
Only worrying about the invisible enemy
As the same rhetoric they hum
Promising 4 more years to prosperity
Yet will now have to spend billions in aid
More costly than some flood defences
More costly than the priceless Free Trade

25. (9th part)
What have we become when
Wives are addicted to soap operas
Where men run around with other women
As watchers try to imitate the actors
And when the kids reach the age of ten
They too try to be young imitators
Whereas time spent watching soaps
Can be used to mould the young
Making them good decent citizens
Disciplined with a civil tongue

26.
When blind-faith is in question
When we lose faith in the military
With botched investigation
Like in the "Iowa" in the US navy
With a blundering explosion
When young servicemen were killed
Mothers can't get the answers
How can you have a trial for the evils
By those who think they are above God
With leaders as obnoxious as weevils

27.
How dumb or heartless can we be
When we sacrifice our own for politics
Sell our mother in the name of ideology
As in the case of the "SS Lusitania"
Or using the "SS Greer"
To lure Americans in World War II
Or to defy the above
Calling the "Titanic" unsinkable
Trying to play God
Such acts are unpardonable

28.
Look at what we have become
We become so involved in aids thus
We have succumbed
Refusing to think it can't happen to us
After being bombarded
By scary propaganda without any trus'
That aids is chiefly spread we hear
Through anal sex chiefly
Which in diverse ways gay partners share
A price for which they pay dearly

29. (10th part)
What are we becoming
When we give full sanction
To our kids watching
Jerry Springer in action
Or the disgusting wrestling
Where grown-ups in concoction
Selling their souls, pity
Leaving the young in exposition
To trash and stupidity
Hampering their intellectual vision

30.
When our kids act so stupidly
When our youths show no care
Showing no respect for their body
As we hear every day on the air
On Drs.Laura and Brown Radio comedy
Where our young women without fear
Their promiscuity is rampant despite aids
Thinking with their vagina
Having a dumb pastime - just getting laid
As they sink to the gutter

31.
What have we become when
We temporize our audience
Disguising as sagacious men
As others shirk in silence
Sleeping dogs lain in their den
In a serendipitous fence
Heedless of patriotic brotherhood
When they grieve and laugh together
Oblivious of kith and kin
Mindful as they look out for one another.
32.(11th part)
I grew up in Guyana as a lad
I had looked forward for the time
When I can be glad and not sad
To the future which looks sublime
Many like me felt we've been had
By leaders who are slippery slime
By merchants not from Venice but every city
Who judge everything by the dollar sign
Have forgotten the basics of life in this society
Who never think of ours but only of mine.

33.
Are we lower than the common animals
On whom we shower so much care
We're supposed to be the highest of mammals
But Oops! Look how badly we fare
We acquiesce to sins of incest and no morals
We've lost our place somewhere
Are we getting too close to the devil?
And have lost the basics on our track
Or we're just deep downright evil
And life is something we cannot hack?

34.
There is still hope for man, maybe
If inwardly he can understand
Become more humane, and not greedy
Put something back in the land
The environment, give to those in poverty
Forget his own selfish demand
Then one day aeons from now
He may cut man's sins in half
His Maker may accept his bow
When he writes his final epitaph

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