Friendly World

To an earth windy with winter winds
You came naked as a child begins
You lay freezing, not owning anything
And a woman wrapped you in a nappy

No one's angry, just oblivious
You are unknown in the busyness
No one sends a limousine for you
But a man does take you by the hand

This world doesn't owe you anything
No one stops you from leaving
Did you manage to, like the children do
Get someone to weep along beside you?

From an earth windy with wintry winds
Staggering, wounded by scars and sins
Nearly everyone
Nearly everyone who lived has loved this world
When they chucked some clods of earth upon them