Reason

Reason is a poem that speaks to some of the uncautionable things that happen in societies today. Sometimes when I read this poem, I think about the disturbances that have become common place in our world today. You be the judge. Here is

Reason

To kill an ant with a sledge!
And cut a twig with an ax
O reason! Why have men forsaken the middle path?
And trod the way of savage brutes.

To cut a twig with an ax
And kill a fly with a shell;
O reason! What has befallen unthinking-man
And thinking-man has fled to savage deeds.