The Value of Life
Inspired by Thucydides' Account of the Plague of Athens

With men aplenty, honor dies
As men run in fear for their lives
So on comes chaos, friend and fiend
For no one will survive

Money and men change hands
The first quickly- man to man
The second from life to death
Or from life to unbridled passion

Men give up to desperation
Each humming their own lamentation
Forgetting that they walk on earth
Forgetting society's higher station

Each separates himself from others
Paranoia strikes each man a blow
And they forget what it means to live
And so with men, honor goes

IDOMAD, 2009