Coexist
Yesterday I did some reading on the human genome
Within each of us are 23 pairs of chromosomes
All composed of adelaide, cytosine, guanine, and thymine
By all, I mean every living thing: flowers, trees, birds, bees, you, and me
Our differences lie in the innumerable sequences of: A, C, G, and T
All life is one, bacteria is your cousin, so is grass, even a flea
We all know human and chimp DNA share 98% similarity
With this in mind, how different can any of us humans actually be?
White, black, brown, yellow, mixed, we're all the same species
Take a quick second and really think about nature's subtlety...
It seems we simply like to feed our ego and tell ourselves we're unique
But it's because we've been raised to be admired and have an "identity"
Pair this with constant competition and you've got a recipe for enmity
They keep us separate with things like: "race", religion, politics, and ideology
Can't you see these are just designed to keep your thoughts elementary?
We saw just recently, in Paris, the consequences of zealotry
But that's just fresh in my mind, there's endless examples of bigotry
Is what I'm saying difficult to discern? Is it really that much of an anomaly?
A majority of our problems are self-created, we are our own worst enemy
Very little actually matters, it's impossible to comprehend our life's brevity
80 years amid 13 billion, we might as well be here accidentally
Scale all "time" into a year - your life would be less than a second, relativity
If you already forgot everything I said, just be nice, show some empathy
And think for yourself, don't let anyone tell you what you ought to believe
At the least, can we agree to disagree?
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