Percentages



90% of humanity disgusts me
The other 10% I shall never get to thank
Beneath contempt and not worth loathing
The 90% I rank
Absolutely numb at the levels my species can sink
A time for nuclear cleansing
Is worth the effort, I think
Be done with it already
Our species is done
We’ve gone to the depths of depravity
There’s nowhere else to run
Give the world to the animals
Let them have their shot
We have proven over and over
That intelligence
We have not
We still kill
We still pollute
We still lie, cheat and steal
We still devour the world
And do it all with such zeal
We thumb our nose at religion
And believe it doesn’t matter
We gorge ourselves on evil
And let our greed get fatter
I shake my head everyday
And wonder why it’s allowed to continue
I’m afraid of one day
Where I will no longer care
Where the stories of horrific tragedies
Will become easy to bear
I want to leave this world
The way I arrived
Innocent
But sometimes I fear
I might become part of the 90%
Keep the Faith and keep strong
For in this world it’s too easy
To go wrong

Eric (and sometimes not)
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Submitted by EASN on February 11, 2023

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABCBDCDAEAEXFGXFXXHIHEGXGJXJKXKIXXXXLAL F
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,086
Words 210
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 39, 1

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