Mean World

The nature of this place is hurricanes and earthquakes

Tsunamis and volcanoes and floods

Plagues and extinction have been its history

Snake bites and attacks from bears and jungle cats

Spiders as big as your hand

Predators and prey and being eaten and waiting to be ate

It is a mean world

A mean old world

An old mean fucking world

Where we’re the victims of its nature

Of loneliness and famine and uncontrollable tides

Crumbling buildings and growth and unavoidable destruction

Agony lies in this nature

We can’t control it

A detriment to our existence

Despite our attempts

Reconciling what can’t be controlled with what can

Wars and starvation and molestation

Murder and loneliness and insanity

Overdoses and stray bullets

Thieves and rapists and tyrants

Abuse and misuse of power

The hate in your heart

The love that you know

This is a mean fucking world

A cantankerous old mean fucking world

And when it ends

It was long over due