I paid for the ride,

We all did with our tears as we cried,

A sham it has become to live on this planet,

On this big rock of molting granite…

The politicians do run this world,

Each and every time I do hear of a catastrophe,

I have wanted to my lunch hurl,

No caring it seems until after the fact,

Seems with the devil we have all made a pact…

Spinning through space our world does unfurl,

Are we indeed headed for apocalypse our individual lives in a twirl?

Stop this spinning planetary body so we can make our exit,

And to think at one time we did think this planet was of the universe a pearl…

          © ed ~ 9/13/05