This Dark Night of Life

The world has gone hostile The land no more fertile Women getting all sterile And all men going senile The sun now shines with cruelty The always excited birds are all now in sobriety The moon itself glows with hostility All nature has indeed lost their hospitality The dog has bitten its owner That celebrity is now a loner That man who feared weapon is now a gunner And the once dauntless soldier now a runner It seems all things have fallen apart That God has called his glory to depart Never again to men's life impart Or to show men anything good in full or in part But to whom shall we run If not to settle under his (God) pinion Though on this dark night of life we mourn I do hope for that joy in the break of dawn