Today

Oh what drab, colorless roils drape the sky  
As the sky, ashen, grey faced the sun  
Clouds billowing  
Spread out as tho' to compass all  
The sun, the moon, and stars do hide  
Those lamps of heavens reaffirming light  
Tho' not darkest all -  
Not as dark as familiar men's souls  
Now conspiracy and conceit do creep  
As knavery, treachery, like the worm doth crawl  
Burrowing archly in soft rot  
Not as men who on stout legs stand  
Thin voices hiss the birthing of death  
So discourse this discordant band  
Full of hubris and cold eyed pride  
Bald faced to the truth do lie  
Yea, beware saviors of mankind  
Altruists who count no cost too high  
As long as it's counted  
In other men's lives