We have lived through the bloodiest and cruelest century of mankind’s history. God surely must be crying.
An Indictment of the 20th Century by Michael Doyle Einstein insisted God did not play with dice While other insisted God needed no such advice With so many changes as to cause disorder Even revolutionaries have found a need for order The Twentieth Century brought a new level of mayhem Leaving humanity's prospects looking rather dim In a clash of old and new, we have faced modernity Knowing nothing resembling anything close to certainty Twin pillars of disastrous pessimism Gave birth to both communism and fascism Both bringing new levels of man's destruction Bringing our world to where it could barely function Socialism has bred nothing short of calamity Claiming the lives and souls from the face of humanity World War Two did not end until Nineteen Ninety-One Now humanity holds its breath as a pandemic has begun The Twentieth Century was the bloodiest of history Genocidal, homicidal outrages are its tearful legacy Piece by piece of this horrifically long litany Is and has been nothing short of shattering travesty This breakdown of society and its feigned civility Is the cultural course that fades our morality Shaken and stirred beyond all sense of sensibility Diametric in its opposition to all good is our legacy (c) March 18, 2020 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
