Enjoy The Ride
I get so frustrated with our culture and society at times I want to scream. Then I get gentle (or not so gentler reminders) that life is short and I realize I want to spend more time enjoying it and less time stressing out over it.

The world is crazy; that’s what I say
Look around you going through your day
Hard to face, but life is truly absurd
Mansions built by workers living in shacks
Vitamins to put in what our foods lack
Violence is fine but not sex
Commuters travel in herds

Cry plenty and laugh a lot
Want it all and treasure what we’ve got
Care so much it hurts
Somehow let it all slide
Enjoy the ride

Healing crystals and machine guns
Air pollution, power from the sun
Basketball millionaires
Classrooms without enough books
Horoscopes, weather satellites
Global warming
Pills to help us sleep at night
Organic vegetables, Wal-Mart
Celebrity crooks

Cry plenty and laugh a lot
Want it all and treasure what we’ve got
Care so much it hurts
Somehow let it all slide
Enjoy the ride

A sense humor with our plight
Helps us through strange days
And wacky nights

Mother Teresa, the Ku Klux Klan
A US president
The whole world can’t stand
Children dying of hunger
Billions spent on defense
Cosmetic surgery, no healthcare
Freedom falling to a terrorist scare
I get catatonic if I think
It’s all supposed to make sense

Cry plenty and laugh a lot
Want it all and treasure what we’ve got
Care so much it hurts
Somehow let it all slide
Enjoy the ride