Infinity overhead
And one in four stars
Has a planet that may hold life
Not too hot not too cold
So I wonder to myself
Are there hell worlds?
Where suffering is the norm
And if so
Is ours one of them
When you look around
At the starving children
At the perpetual war
The great incarcerated
And the Nation Blue
There’s no shortage of suffering
And was history any different
Is life in the natural world
As they say
‘Nasty, Brutish and Short’
So that even our animal friends
Are swimming in the shit
And I wonder if our world is a hell world
Is suffering the default
For conscious beings
Thus making the universe
A colossal cluster-fuck
Or has my mind just been soiled
By the nature of my own existence
Will technology bring utopia
As the world develops
And balance the suffering
Of the masses of today
Or will we destroy ourselves
As we are prone to do
Before the tide turns
And will my own future bring
A brighter notion
Of what it means to be alive
If nothing else I’m blessed
That I have the time to think
Of that great aberration
Are there hell worlds?
