We're Living Now in Dangerous Times

We're living now in dangerous times
Though maybe not more than before
We've lost some old disturbing crimes
But daily we discover more.

Religion will not help us here
We have enough ways to go mad
But reason will not disappear
And all the ends are sad.

Too many hold the sacred flame
Believing better is elsewhere
Abandoning from where they came
Abandoning their right to care.

They prophesy the end of days
For what they see without a doubt
Is where their footsteps guide their ways
And what they bring about.

They see wars in uneasy peace
They see the devil in the lines
They wish to feel the soul's release
From base mortal designs.

They see a war to end all wars
They see a battle final met
Disturbingly, they do not pause
Their victory, to see regret.

There is no better world to come
If we, alone, can't make it true
We march the march, we beat the drum
What will be done, is what we do.