The Dawn of Destruction

The world is mired in turmoil,
  and it's made it hard to cope.
It seems that what may lie ahead
  is on a slippery slope.
The dominance of greed has
   become the face of fashion.
It hasn't left a remnant of what
  used to be compassion.
It has conquered every facet
  of our line of best defense.
Now lying in the ruins
  is the corpse of common sense.
Could there be a ray of hope
  that would have the skill to suture
every ugly gaping wound in
  our grandkids' precious future?