Evil Vociferation Poem by Oyekake Satty (O S) Joshua

From what place emerge such evil in man?
Doesn’t our DNA embody love and care?
Where do the kindness enzymes reside?
Are they disproportionately allotted within?
Why has compassion and empathy hijacked?
What proportion remains to be replenished?
Where lay the sense of justice or fair play?
Where does reason and commonsense reside?

Is DNA stranded with callous indifference
to the majority, to the injustice of another?
Why the interminable prompting of concern
And the outcry for ethics, morality and justice
for oneself, families, friends and love ones?
Why has knowledge been suddenly jettisoned?
Why has true intelligence surprisingly castoff?
What is their reasoning? What is the meaning?

We have excelled in our great discoveries
And boast of supercomputers and cathedrals,
We relish on our technological breakthroughs
And all the great achievement to roam the sky
And our ability to explore the heavens
Yet fail to greet the person next door
Or to feed the child dying of hunger
Or live peaceably with our neighbors.

Our streets are replete with the homeless
Our cities, a wasteland fraught with poverty
Evil is multiplied and compassion is pilfered.
We waste away for want of life’s true meaning
We smile to a future bleak and contrived
And resign from a present begging for life,
genuine love, nourishment, care and concern.

Bereft of the human capacity for true love,
We labor more in our artificial pursuits
To the neglect of human intelligence
We give-in to the vice of evil vociferation
With the call to brotherhood forever abandoned.