The world we knew ended long ago.
Didn’t we know a place of peace before?
Perhaps it was only a dream.

Our planet suffers now
As a child left alone in the wilderness
Ignorance leads to starvation.

I cannot grieve for this doomed existence,
Yet I will know the sound of its final demise.

Not World War III.
Not a giant asteroid.
Not another ice age.
Not the anti-Christ.
Not the Battle of Armageddon.
Not the slaying of the dragon.

When every child’s tears turn to laughter.
This is the beginning of the world as we knew it.