Oh, the tragedy of the human race
Without the sway and sublimity of grace...
Gnawing at the roots in slaveries of sin,
Of 'unredeemable' craze and whim.
The brainsick, rambling passions -
The robbers of unfeigned compassion.
The bullheaded sin -
The wrecker of profundity and pity...
World unruly malnourished of mercy and charity,
Boiling in the lake of depravity,
Boiling away on account of gullibility -
In blind conformity and widely run into insanity;
Devoid of taste at all times in dispiriting haste,
Faces of dreariness, nauseating sin murkiness,
Underfed of logic, arrogant of arrogance;
All in all ignorant about its ignorance
Submerged in death-defying,
Unsafe as fire tolerance...
Oh, the tragedy of the human race
Without the sway and grandeur of grace...
Plunging into unredeemable gloom and distrust
Without the Redeemable, never-fading
Never-failing 'Must.'
Dorothy Kardas, Psy.D. Th.D.
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/abba-4/
