By David Seddon
David is a retired English teacher and an active member of Stockport Humanists
FACE-OFF
Let’s note man’s inhumanity to man –
No prophet, saviour, teacher ever could
Convince us we should stop – although we can
At times pause and try briefly to be good.
Too often The Old Adam pushes through,
And deep primordial feelings weigh us down.
We swim through fantasies of what to do,
Till human voices wake us, and we drown.
Listen to those voices – human words
Born of our thinking, helping us access
Thoughts of old like murmurating birds,
Floating above us in some vast caress.
Let humanism’s brain conceive our plan
To face man’s inhumanity to man.
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