Nobel Prize

Are you a nightmare or an oracle, Unavoidable? Are you the future, or a plausible Worst-case scenario? You've visited in my sleep Every night this week Curled yourself in my lap And smiled while you spoke: "Once we've poisoned all the water Once we've blackened out the air We'll finish murdering each other Fair is fair" I tried to talk you down: "There's a better half you're not looking at A greater empathy - " You shrugged me off, Talked over me: "You & your simple life Come at a complex price And they're busting through the gates To steal it for themselves - I say we razorblade the borders Or even take the fight to them Let's go slaughtering the natives Again Or we can fire up the program Let the drones do all the dirt Might even win a Nobel Peace Prize Well-deserved" It's every bit as ugly Every bit as brutal Every bit as dark as it's light Paralyzed, wondering why While she's dead asleep I'm starving for protection Pulled in all directions Never certain which is the lie: The elegance of being alive, Or the agony