I spent some idealistic time
in the inner city
thinking I could take pity
on the poor and soon
all would be fine.

But my stay was short
and I headed to
the college scene
to cry against the war so obscene
and ponder things to sort.

So, here we are all these years later
and the more things change
the more they remain the same
goes the cliché,

and Adam, Eve, the
snake and Abel and Cain
still have something to say
about a world seemingly
gone insane.