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John T. Baker

Evolution

In centuries to come beyond this time
Will students of our era think it odd
That we did not consider war a crime
But just a means to designate the god?
Will history return indictments strong
Of how we came to earn such ill repute,
How we persisted, though we knew it wrong,
Our habitat to plunder and pollute?
Will scientists and scholars yet unborn
Denounce our age as crass and immature,
And say of us in ridicule and scorn
We deified the rich, ignored the poor?
Or will posterity be prone to blame,
If our descendents still act much the same?