Anthropocentric

As the symbols of

The metaphysics of the hangman are taken off the walls

Of our living rooms,

Humanity emancipates

Christ. Statues fall and die of age, 

Just like us: inorganic decay.

The myths of the martyrs have waned --

No longer do we mourn their loss.

Their children dance and play their games

In the shadow of the great old white cross.



Wealth heals all wounds and alleviates any kind of pain.

The shroud of the collective oblivion coats any individual scars.

The widows of the skeptical have passed away before they could retaliate.

And, those who baptized the world with the sword have long been buried,

And have not arisen from their graves.



The guardians of righteousness have lost their immaculity.

The rise of the enlightenment has defeated Christianity.

But, its legacy of fear and submissiveness prevails

In many brave man's heart and soul:

The saddening conception that humanity cannot choose its own destiny.

With our lives based on the hope for salvation,

The humanist paradigm is nothing but a charade.

Condemned to inertia; a passive race,

We wait and contemplate.



And, even in these days and age some people still believe

That Earth is at the center of God's own universe,

And that man was made the 7th day, evolution is a myth,

And that even bones of ancient creatures are no evidence

Of the fact that we are not the end of the chain.

And they won't leave their ship that is sinking.

They refuse to leave their ship that is sinking.



And, while they spoke of grace and love, forgiveness from above,

They nailed thousands of non-believers to their crude symbol of love

And, they won't leave their ship that is sinking.

They refuse to leave their ship that is sinking.



The myth that man is the crown of God's creation

Breeds the excuse to deplete the Earth today.

The myth that man is the crown of God's creation

Supports our present anthropocentric misconception.



And, even in these days and age some people still believe

That Earth is at the center of God's own universe,

Of the fact that we are not the end of the chain.

And, they won't leave their ship that is sinking.

They refuse to leave their ship that is sinking.



The myth that man is the crown of God's creation

Breeds the excuse to deplete the Earth today.

The myth that man is the crown of God's creation

Supports our present anthropocentric misconception.