Mediocrity

I've spent my life observing

And then pondering this place

And never has confusion ever ceased

I've also heard a lot of exaltation for our kind

And sanctimonious reverence for peace

The stories from our childhood

Condition us to think

That beauty is a basic human trait

But how are they reconciled with daily realities

Like poverty and dominance and rape

But you have to be

Stone cold dead not to see

Overwhelming incongruity

As we search for suggestions to remedy...

...Mediocrity

If you just sit back and record what you see

The tragic and exquisite are the same to some degree

But most events depict a common theme:

There's far more disorder

Than there is harmony

I said you've got to be

Stone cold dead not to see

Overwhelming incongruity

It is pointless to search for teleology

Mediocrity

(Always mediocrity)