The Thing Called Corruption
No human disaster Gives up its true evil nature Till a more powerful thing that roars And truly do bite Match its potent spells. Everyone sees the seed growing, Eye, limbs, brain forming But none is gallant To hack the monster while it is still an innocent baby-thing. Like the proverbial child of the beautiful spotted beast, It is nurtured Left to live free amongst men They hope it would die when the time comes, Before them, Yet it has outlived all who first beheld its birth.