Beautiful World

We live in a beautiful world,

it is a great shame that it will soon be gone.

Air conditioning in summer

and four wheel drives for the school run,

seem like a poor trade

for happily ever after, son.

And to think we could had it all,

the lucky ones, what is it called?

28 million to one, to exist at all.

A cosmic aberration when it all begun, way back when.

The smartest guy in the room,

or the apex predator at the top of the food chain?

Self-will in spades, smarts like nothing else, 

imagination that seems limitless, and humour to boot.

And an intelligent mind, now that’s hard to find,

or so we tell ourselves, is that where the delusion began?

What we’d call lesser species, don’t shit in their own nests,

something we lost sight of, in our quest to be the best.

We never could overcome our petty jealousies, and hate.

We never could get over converting our neighbour’s mate.

We never could learn to share everything we have.

We never really understood the concept of unconditional love.

So here we are, we have made it this far, our glorious home in danger

of falling completely apart. And what are we doing, now, I ask?

Well? It is business as usual, can I get my new car in the bigger size?

More coal, more gas, all of this drama over carbon, has to be for someone else.