A World Gone Astray

On a morning like any other  

With the ever-present sun burning bright  

I woke to find myself in a world  

Where nothing seemed quite right 

Oh, the birds still chirped in the trees  

The fish had not sprouted wings  

The dead still lay beneath the dirt  

While the living did a zillion ordinary things  

Oh, the dear did not shoot the hunters  

Homo sapiens were still on the top 

Two plus two did not become five 

All technology did not spontaneously stop 

Oh, the earth was still as polluted as ever  

The sky had not turned green  

The clock still ticked merrily away 

No impossible sights were seen 

Yet it was a topsy - turvy world  

Life seemed to have turned upside-down  

Things weren’t the way they were meant to be 

And I could do naught but flown  

Honour and bravery meant nothing here  

Knowledge was worth no more than a penny 

Lies and corruption seemed to run rampart 

The worth of an honest man was: not any! 

Those that were meant to be kind and compassionate 

Could not bring themselves to care for another  

Virtue was just empty words  

Where man killed his own brother 

This world had gone astray 

The fairy tales were all a lie 

And I saw it in all its brutality

As the veil from my unsuspecting eye.