NOW OR NEVER

                    What are we here for if not to improve
                    The world that we discovered at our birth;
                    There is no nobler motive to behoove
                     Us than create a culture of great worth.

                     Our history shows us Golden Ages gone
                     Beginning with the Paradise we lost
                     That Scripture tells of at our species’ dawn,
                     Since when our voyage has been tempest tossed.

                     It is our task at last to rectify
                     The damages our waywardness has wrought
                     And with the ways of sanity comply,
                     Living in love as happily as we ought.

                          Such is the message Scriptures have advised
                          That now or never must be realized.

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