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But if he was, on his theories this is my personal insight
First off let us imagine a pile of old dusty books if you can
Examples of titles, Darwin's Theories and Evolution Of Man
Right on top of this mountain of books, as high as the eye can see
Sits alone, deep in thought a quiet very puzzled monkey
He sits for weeks and months always searching even at night
Searching for an answer to a question that is very far from sight
In his hands he carefully holds a gleaming human skull
He stares at it day and night until his brain slowly grows dull
For the question, you see, he simply cannot suss
Is how his kind managed to devolve into us
Yes, I did say devolve, you did hear me right
Now I've started, this bullet I will have to bite
In order for us to evolve as a race we have to improve
But backwards is the direction that we have managed to move
Back to the monkey who can not get straight in his mind
How his peaceful race turned into our savage kind
Savage! How harsh! I hear you cry
Yes and this is the answer why
You say “Would savages create hospitals to improve people's health?”
But guns, war and drugs bring for our kind a huge amount of wealth
Now we have clawed our way to the top of the food chain
How do we pay our mother earth back but with acid rain
Now we have devolved into humans what do we do for fun?
Hunt poor defenceless animals with packs of dogs and a gun
Rub salt into the wound, a popular insult used by our kind
They call you “Animal” if you do something not right in a humans mind
So the monkey sits, still thinking of the devolution and asking why
On top of the mountain of books this monkey starts to cry
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Devolution

Contributed by Omen on Tuesday, 16th March 2010 @ 06:21:01 PM in AEST
Topic: MiscPoems

Let me just state for the record I don't think Darwin's right
But if he was, on his theories this is my personal insight
First off let us imagine a pile of old dusty books if you can
Examples of titles, Darwin's Theories and Evolution Of Man
Right on top of this mountain of books, as high as the eye can see
Sits alone, deep in thought a quiet very puzzled monkey
He sits for weeks and months always searching even at night
Searching for an answer to a question that is very far from sight
In his hands he carefully holds a gleaming human skull
He stares at it day and night until his brain slowly grows dull
For the question, you see, he simply cannot suss
Is how his kind managed to devolve into us
Yes, I did say devolve, you did hear me right
Now I've started, this bullet I will have to bite
In order for us to evolve as a race we have to improve
But backwards is the direction that we have managed to move
Back to the monkey who can not get straight in his mind
How his peaceful race turned into our savage kind
Savage! How harsh! I hear you cry
Yes and this is the answer why
You say “Would savages create hospitals to improve people's health?”
But guns, war and drugs bring for our kind a huge amount of wealth
Now we have clawed our way to the top of the food chain
How do we pay our mother earth back but with acid rain
Now we have devolved into humans what do we do for fun?
Hunt poor defenceless animals with packs of dogs and a gun
Rub salt into the wound, a popular insult used by our kind
They call you “Animal” if you do something not right in a humans mind
So the monkey sits, still thinking of the devolution and asking why
On top of the mountain of books this monkey starts to cry

Copyright Â© Omen ... [ 2010-03-16 18:21:01]
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Re: Devolution (User Rating: 1 )
by elle on Tuesday, 16th March 2010 @ 07:17:12 PM AEST
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This is a very intriguing take on the course of man & the predicaments
that we create for (or you might say against) ourselves. Nicely done.

elle :)

Re: Devolution (User Rating: 1 )
by Former_Member on Tuesday, 16th March 2010 @ 10:14:11 PM AEST
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Very provocative write and well played. There is an intellectual flavour to this that I find delicious. Your write seems to suggest that the more humans learn, the more they seem to forget. And I would tend to agree. It's unfortunate that we have so much technology at our fingertips to do good and really enter a Utopian society, and yet we allow greed, hatred and anger to limit our efforts. Pity.

Excellent post.

Seléne ~

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