For hate will blind

For hate will blind

And fear will bind

But, truth may be unkind

For those that look to find

For could all creative thought

Be through only one mind brought

That cannot always be taught

And is at conception caught

Leaving empires in the sand

Scattered across distant lands

Created by the same hands

Of men that no longer stand

Just like Babylon before

Classical Greece is no more

And then great Rome stood so tall

But only to decline and fall

For is there an innate vice

That turns to hate and strife

For could intelligent life

Have somehow evolved twice

Or is there a genetic link?

That makes us all swim or sink

Making the great minds think

Creating in pen and ink

That creates the frills of state

And therefore seals our fate

For sinners and for saint

For those that love or hate

But if we had understood

Would we have taken the good?

Could we have saved the Golden Age?

With love and beauty not rage

And build upon shifting sands

Empires that forever stand

Against the poverty and

Suffering of every man

Or would we throw it away

Just for a moment of a day

Just to have love in our hands

To fly like a dove not a man.