Contemplating Life ( poetic ' sat by a lake' version)

Contemplating life, why are we here?

Clinging to existence on this earthly sphere

Sitting by a lake, thinking and wondering

Listening to the sound of the sky thundering

 

Are humans meant to contaminate the air?

Or strip the forests until they are bare

Are humans meant to kill and to maim?

Is it all part of the evolutionary game?

 

Maybe there really is an omnipresent god

Looking down, thinking they’re odd

I gave them a lovely planet, full of many wonders

They keep making, such elementary blunders

 

Like filling the oceans full of nuclear waste

Destroying the ozone layer with indecent haste

Pretending they don't see, others dying of need

Declaring wars, until the earth it does bleed

 

Contemplating life, why are we here?

Clinging to existence on this earthly sphere

By a lake, that is mysteriously gleaming

I stand contemplating, life's real meaning

Done