Imagine a world bereft of sunshine,
Just overcast in smoke and drizzling
People grim holding umbrellas,
Gaunt faces with tempers sizzling
Imagine trees without leafy foliage
Scrawny and withered, arms outstretched
To scare the life from passers by
Ready to pounce they stand abject
Buds that sprout on leafless stems
That never, ever seem to bloom
And days an everlasting tapestry
Filled with manic morbid doom.
Imagine songs without rhythm
And drummers without a beat
Imagine multitudes of people
Standing silent in the heat.
Ripped apart by bullets and bombs
Imagine bodies in mangled shreds
Fire raging in the heavens
Horizons mad with frantic dread
Chaos spread from Palestine
Igniting the Arab sands
Famine beyond borders of Africa
Spreading through Europe’s land
Imagine children dying
From hunger and disease
Imagine warlord governments
Refuse to negotiate a cease
Imagine plagues and destruction
By swarming locusts, and flies
All the arable land lay wasted
Rivers awash with blood and dye
Imagine anarchy in northern states
Generations of youth living for dope
And mayhem spread from Afghanistan
Where poppies suck all rays of hope
Riots spreading in civilized nations
From Sacramento to Tel Aviv
Colossal polar ice caps melting
Into the bosom of Northern sea’s.
Imagine entire spans of forests
Aflame in southern hills
Dolphins in their masses dying
When tons of oil in oceans spill.
Of all that one can imagine
Imagine waking one fine morn
To find a world where this is real
From mankind’s deeds all borne.