Poetry Can Save the World

There are men,
Who knowing calculus
And biology
Can save mankind from a virus.
To all intents and purposes
I lay my hat bear to such a one as this.

However, there is an even crueler virus
And that is the virus of misunderstanding.
It is a virus of men talking
But no one listening.
It is a critical ear,
That scrutinizes all ideas
Save the one engendered in the solipsist mind.

If we are to ever grow
And take this second chance we are given...
The smartest man in the world 
Might save us from living like hermits.
But, if we never learn how to understand one another
There will be crisis after crisis.

Some say that they wish to remove the humanities
From the curriculum.
Yet the humanities are our most important subject.
For, from them, we enter the gateway
To understanding each other.
And no, not ourselves.