The Age of Man

The Age of Man

We carried on
The age of man
Till moon of tin bore
An electric sun

And all machines
Shone bright and clean
Keeping silent
But wanting more

Till the purpose mind
Did loose its time
In idle waves lament
Through prostitution of evolution
A self induced torrent

Took his mind till eyes fell blind
Unraveled the very core
To spit it bright into the night
Every secret that endured

Till all the stars fell off in drought
Withered at the root
Every galaxy was brought to knee
By the embassy we took

And God came down
To spy our crown
In towers that we command
As every tree
Laid low to be
A place that we should stand

While all the earth
Gave up its worth
Mountains fell to sand
But those machines
All we could see
God left us standing there

So gathering the ways
Of all his days
His books and all his score
Scattered it high into the sky
Into the cloud he stored

Every thought
That effort bought
By page, pen and grave
And set to fire
By all his ire
Knowledge eons gave

While dirt of earth gave up its worth
Lay idle, a broken land
Gave lifeless life unto the night
And Metal, a full command

Till from the hearth soulless marched
The field of Mars and woe
To stand in line as engines grind
In that womb steel did grow

From something other
Than a loving mother
A milk of gasoline
In burning oil and writhing toil
A demon she did wean

So the thought machine
Did kiss our dream
As man must lay to rest
But that unblinking eye
Our thoughts did spy
And developed its own interests

And not one of we
Did need to be
Said that steel abhorrent pet
And once the master, fell fast, then faster
Until not one of we were left

An an age for I
The lidless eye
Not troubled by truth or dare
Stays unseen
By human being
And continues its lifeless stair

And rain came down from man made cloud
In that fog the Godless kept
All the ways until that day
And away it all was swept