The Newspaper Headlines

The birds call on the gray gum trees nearby And rain comes drizzling from gray Winter sky And i feel tired and i look old and gray And perhaps i too have seen a better day. The newspaper headlines don't read well today In Moe Town one hundred miles away The police search for the body of a baby boy Why the innocent must suffer wonder why? . Why are newspaper headlines mostly sad? They only paint humanity as bad To print tragic stories they seem too inclined And to many acts of human goodness they seem blind. The weather today well matches my mood I long for joy and peace and solitude But humans from their troubles cannot fly Is Paradise on Earth another lie? Though the police search the ponds and dams and lakes around The child missing in Moe yet not found And the newspapers the tragic story tell They seem to thrive on other peoples hell.