Squandered Paradise

Humankind has squandered the gifts that Mother gave
 A world of wealth and plenty; led to an early grave
 And paths to so-called 'progress' with blood of millions paved
 Utopia soon out of reach
 As swords grew mightier than the plough
 Such promise of superiority
 Tell me - where are we now?
 Bloodletting a planet and culling our own lives
 Caught in the wake of our self-destruction
 Hail the glorious humankind – Hail!
 Hail the splendour of our kind!
 Hail the glorious mankind!
 Lack of understanding; about responsibility
 The kind we are so eager to avoid
 Evermanipulating - the bringers of war and woe
 A travesty within the cosmic scale
 Our legacy is fraught with death
 Battle-ridden and paid for in blood
 True bringers of violence and flame
 A tyranny of intellect; a vile manifestation
 An error of the universe; harbingers of damnation
 As history repeats itself time upon time
 And still we fail to learn
 Unworthy of the air we breathe; unworthy of our pride
 Unworthy of our power; so gleefully abused
 Our kind stands here accused; of squandering it all
 We've been weighed; and swiftly found unworthy
 Weighed and found unworthy; of it all
 Evermanipulating - the bringers of war and woe
 A travesty within the cosmic scale
 Squandered paradise