Guns Germs and Steel, Part I

Jared Diamond's new DVD

Guns Germs and Steel

have controlled who we are

and all that we know to be real

 

Let me explain

 

Where it began nobody can say

how it has developed

many stories tell us the way

 

They say what men hoped to gain

 

The creation of a language

each one invented by men

who had hoped for a change

 

But resulting in so much pain

 

Evolution has played a role

helping to make some change

by giving men a goal

 

And we have acted like Cain

 

The changes in the earth

were more controlling than men

no matter their worth

 

Weather included more than rain

 

With little water for seed

the heat from the sun

destroyed the food men need

 

Arid conditions are bad for grain

 

Humans who found food

growing or what they could kill

lived the best that they could

 

hoping for some rain

 

This part of the story

tells how men had to suffer

dangerous animals were a worry

 

No one was to blame