What a wonderful world

Anyone can live
But not everyone can change the world forever.

Everyone will live
And all they do will change something.

But wouldn’t it be nice
If no one changed anything

If only
If

Oh, if no one made their dent
Or mark
Or blemish

And if we lived in a world where we didn’t have an overriding sense
To kill our trees
To spread disease
To kill ourselves
To stock our shelves
To make our mark
To dis embark
From ourselves and everything we have come to know
For just a minute.

But we can’t.
And we won’t.

I wish it was as simple as living in Louis Armstrong’s conception of the world
But it’s not
And it never will be
We are fucked.