Hourglass

Somehow I'm still an optimist

Though you might think it's strange

That we can still make changes

Before we're forced to change

But I see the sand run out

Through the hourglass

I swear I don't remember

That it ever ran this fast

I don't pray for the departed

They are the lucky ones

I pray instead for all of those

Whose future's yet to come

Trying to make a better world

Such as we've never seen

Trying not to get run over

By a global greed machine

What is it that we really need

Is it bright and shiny stuff

Is it all about the money

Don't we ever have enough

This self-perpetuating thing

The human race has made

Won't do us any good

When the memory of us fades