HOMO ABERRANS

The species destined to stray from its course,
Forgetting both its purpose and its Source,
Humanity has grown inhumane,
Who should have been both virtuous and sane,
Who had the intellect to comprehend
And rise, but chose to falter and descend,
Seduced by its false shadow of a mind
To take for vision what indeed was blind,
Seeing only what its hollow eyes could see,
Not what is ultimate reality—
Which only may be seen by sight of soul,
A vision that alone can make it whole.

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