Crystal Ball

I gaze into the crystal ball

The thing that’s s’posed to tell it all

But all it shows is darker days

Unless our kind can mend its ways

 

For men of power pay no heed

To the billions lost in need

While greed and envy drive them on

Until at last our time is gone

 

And if we cannot banish hate

Extinction lies for us in wait

An end of days in pain and fear

With no-one left to shed a tear

 

I ask if yet there is still hope

A thread at least, if not a rope

The crystal says perhaps, may be

If we return to sanity

 

If love for all is held supreme

Reality not just a dream

But hurry to avoid your fate

Lest, for man, ‘twill be too late