Farewell

Farewell,
all you golden ideas
from the Enlightenment,
concepts from the Renaissance,
logic
and light,
science and
the worth of the human.

We never fully believed in you,
and in our reaching,
our greed and grasping,
we have overstepped
and now,
with the dark clouds hanging over all,
rising seas
and storms
we seem to prefer
the old ways better -
the tribe,
the myth,
and the plunge into intentioned  hatred
in the name of
purity,
no matter what the outcome.