​Indifference (An Inaugural Poem)

“Nature and nature’s God” persist imperiled
Because of human plunder’s tampering,
An end foreseen for much of the known world,
While men once wise would make a knave a king.

However did such an amoral fool
Attain his nation’s highest office now?
By lies and falsehood. Men deserve misrule
Whom forked-tongue flatteries gull anyhow.

Yet many—numberless—who will be hurt
Wanted no part of this pernicious realm— 
Yet far too long did human eyes avert
From lust and greed that now must overwhelm.

The die is cast: let man become extinct
If a just recompense for that white greed
That has reduced a world, severely brinked
Through excess far surpassing any need.

Had any man the might to turn back time
How I would pray, that we not reach this pass,
Yet men too long persisted in their crime,
Indifference, so, come what must come, and has.