David X Novak
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​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
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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.