FOOLS' PARADISE

You fool me, I fool you;

We all do fool each other;

And go on fooling 'round,

Till God does fool us all

Out of the Earth forever...

And we can't be cooperative,

For we are competitive;

And we can't be selfless,

For we are selfish;

And we can't be loving, 

For we are aggressive;

And we can't be God of ourselves,

A stronger God than the God of myth.

So we are what we are,

And will forever be,

Definitely mortal,

In the fools' paradise.

(To be edited, improved, and recomposed)

--N P Samal