Above and Below

Underneath man's driving need
Lies sex and politics, and greed:
Controlling the vices found behind
The weakening of the human mind.
The origins of this quest for power
Are but vain attempts to stay the hour,
Which looms above all mortal heads,
That every man, in some way, dreads:
When last he draws his final breath
To begin the life we’ve labeled “death”.

[edit on 10/30/2005 by queenannie38]