Man vs. Nature

Oh the shadows that follow

Even in the dark.

The cloaks that trail behind

Through the forest of the mind.

Oh! What thoughts haunt day and night

Cluttered with pain

And marred with misery.

The troubles with their trickery

Constantly playing games on the brain--

The grey mass residing within an egg shell.

What makes a beast?

Is it man or nature

That wills evil into another being?

Man and nature compete for the final word

In the fight for survival--

Tearing down forests and spoiling rivers,

Creating plagues and monstrous floods.

Is it the priest telling his followers

Hiding in past shadows?

What of the man who committed sin after sin

Then claimed it to be the word of the lord?

Monster after monster is bred,

In nature and by man.

It is man’s need to fight,

To express anger in violence,

That makes them into tyrants.