Population Explosion

The dark shadows of the Malthusian prediction
are growing with an ominous intensity,
the specter of starved masses
on shrinking land,
struggling for living space,
amidst a chocking density,
while pious souls,
misguided by some men in black,
their collars starched,
as are their dated dreams,
oblivious to the spectacle
of hungry masses' desperate screams,
follow their own narrow
and unenlightened path,
't is bad enough that they do thus,
condemn their own,
the question I do ask of them:
Why us? Why us?

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2005 Alfred Charasz