What\'s happening to my world??!!!

Why is it we always want
That which we cannot get?
Why do we form opinions
About people we have never met?

Why do we predict the existence
Of peace during a brutal war?
Why do we firmly believe that
Only some can ever become a star?

Why do we choose to believe a vision
Instead of known reality?
Why do we try to fight
Against our own mortality?

Why do we declare someone great
Although nothing great has been done?
Why do we, at the cost of others
Enjoy and believe that we're having fun?

Why do we behave differently
Behind the back of an outside man?
Why don't we ever look back
And righten things when we can?

Why do we shut off our brains
At the very sight of money?
How can we even feel that
Animals performing under a whip are funny?

Is it even within our rights
To take joy in another's pain?
Isn't it time we took each other
In a much more serious vein?

Isn't it time we stopped
Fighting like lusting oxen?
Isn't it time we realized
That we're supposed to be brethren?

Isn't it true that we don't care
What happens to the world?
Isn't it true that within ourselves
We'd rather stay forever tightly curled?

Our lost status as human beings
Isn't it high time we redeemed?
Cant we feel the river of change?
Cant we flow with this restless stream?