"Footsteps All Our Own"

Toward the beginning of mankind,
We held exceptional connection,
Yes, trust once existed without a need for inspection,
But soon we'd trade connecting, for something more infecting,
An ego-filled society eternally misdirecting,
And of course, we would proceed, arm in arm with deceit,
Thinking wed better fool him,
Before he should fool me,
And we continued that wicked process until we grew estranged,
Walled up vacant shells with different names,
The lies, they grew in numbers, As they spouted from our tounges,
Through a sense of self-protection, we'd watch cancer grow among us,
And with it, our behavior grew negative and obscene,
Untainted souls remained but they proceeded so unseen,
From there, things would spiral downward for improvement of self,
Regardless of where that would take our species or anything else,
Mankind, had been led astray by footsteps in the snow,
Forever blaming what had left them,
Forgetting, they're our own.

-TS (PND)