Because We Can Doesn’t Mean We May

And where is conscience
In all this
May we agree
This is a secular value

Maybe not
Maybe we’d say
It’s a confluence of chemicals
And so adjust the chemicals
According to agenda

And this is it
We’ll say
We can do anything
And so might as well
And so the anarchies of one

Guided by something
Because we are
Guided by something
We will release
All anathema
All destruction

Because
We could
So might as well

All this
Without a conscience
Without a human try
At salvation

Our part preceding
Armageddon
That we could line up for
Weapons down
Bringing drink with food
Instead
And also medicine
With the medicine of joy
As another
Secular choice

We could do this
We can do it

C L Couch


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