This world is a nightmare.
It is something dark and sinister
and destructive and
wrong.

It is made up of people who
do not laugh at their faults,
people who do not think for
themselves when others are
willing to do it for them.
People with no capacity for wonder,
no drive to learn or to grow.

Every time someone stands for something
or tries to help they are cut down
by simple minded people
that are afraid of a world where
they might yet be proven wrong.
Every time a leader rises to right
a wrong he becomes some small piece
of the problem he set out to fix.

We do it.
We are poison. We are poison.
A product of a tough planet.
A **** or be killed kind of people.
But we could be so much more.

If only we tried.
We can still change.
We have only to find a reason to.

We inherited a nightmare, from a
generation of people who meant well.
We were given a promise of a bright
future and delivered something foul
and expired.
We don't have to settle for making
it bearable. We can change it.
Fashion it into something we can
be proud of.

We are so small, so insignificant.
Yet we are so great, so mighty.
We can accomplish so much.
If only we tried.

Why can't that be reason enough?