What’s the Plan?

The leaders we have chosen are children in the wilderness,

No moral motivation prompts the actions that we’ve seen,

The masters that they serve will someday all to us confess

The criminal conspiracies that human lives and rights demean.

Given that we know the truth,

The question now that’s so uncouth,

What’s the plan?

They tell us that our time on earth is running out its term,

Poisoning sea and sky and living things for all their very worth,

Making many promises, signing words to say we it confirm,

Wind and fire and flood now our earn-ed legacy on earth,

Given that we know the truth,

The question now that’s so uncouth,

What’s the plan?

Maddened wild animals, we hunger for each and every crumb

We see upon a neighbor’s plate that we so long to own,

Let loose upon the world, death, destruction, we are numb

To all the misery and pain into which our lifetime’s thrown.

Given that we know the truth,

The question now that’s so uncouth,

What’s the plan?

Now I’ve detailed for the conscious what life is all about,

Thinking of our loved ones, sweet children at our feet,

We need no other useless words to fume about and spout,

Just some talk and action seek when next we get to meet.

Given that we know the truth,

The question now that’s so uncouth,

What’s the plan?

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