Unbidden

I never thought to see the day,
That our world would be turned to ash,
Punished for what we believed,
No—in truth,
Twas the wrongs we’d driven deep. 
The pain we’d make our own people feel,
Generations from now,
They would still kneel,
And we would know,
That this was our own doing,
Unbidden, our demons grow. 
The change,
The strange,
This world on edge,
A path beyond our view.
Odd,
Dream,
Perfect it seems,
Or at least it did to you.

The faith,
The fight,
We must soon take flight,
If this all stays the same,
But the end is not yet in view.
It's not to late—to change.

The Decent

To find the lowest point,
We seem to be determined to do,
When from the heights we fell,
To ponder our failure.

Or maybe...

We were never as high in the sky,
As we believed. 
Some illusions of our own importantness,
With which we were deceived.