Ending With a Whimper

 

Our planet woke a little warmer yesterday

But did it really matter much to me?

I’d say I didn’t feel it anyway

Though perhaps tomorrow I’d begin to see

Inconvenient consequence commence

 

Some people seemed a little crazy on the news tonight

Others just stark staring mad

Everyone hates everyone else

With killing just an entertainment show

Our real reality spaced between the unreal kind

 

I’d rather hoped to find another, softer way

One not founded on a dogma and an ism

Differentiating well and ill without

While leaving space inside for inner doubt

Not fierce judgmental icy passion

 

I suppose it isn’t any use bewailing loss

Or hoping for a secret truce to start

It seems there just isn’t any hope

Nothing left for humans to believe in

Only, sadly, ending, with a whimper