Virtues Long Gone?

Where are the compassionate

Humankind of woes

Whose hearts are hard

And stringed in throes

Of greed and vanity.



Where is the love of humankind?

Many are awashed in drains of hate

Blind to the pitiful call of brotherhood

Soaked in eternal misfortune of

Anguish due to war and poverty!



The world was made perfect

In the beginning it was so

The old golden days of virtues

Are long gone in the modern times

Of technology of lies and deceit.



The gifts are too many

The charities are far more plenty

The love, the caring and the sharing

Are left in the memory of despair

Oh men of wanton depravity!



~greenmeadow~

2/18/2006




Author's Notes/Comments: 

~to the less fortunate~

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