The Best of All Possible Worlds

"There is a concatenation of all events in the best of possible worlds; for, in short, had you not been kicked out of a fine castle for the love of Miss Cunegund; had you not been put into the Inquisition; had you not traveled over America on foot; had you not run the Baron through the body; and had you not lost all your sheep, which you brought from the good country of El Dorado, you would not have been here to eat preserved citrons and pistachio nuts." -from Candide by Voltaire

Is it for the best?
The knife that stabs into the chest
The bomb over the village
The rapists next victim
The death of your mother
Or of your father
The endless spread
Of guns
Germs
and steel.*

Or is it not?
A battle worth having fought
A innocent died; a baby who cried
One without hope
One caught in a storm
A thunderous quake
A man who hung himself
A man who was hung unjustly
A man who walked away
When there was blood on his hands.
Is this what they call Utopia?

Leibniz, with a smile on his face
A man with no depression
Within the hearts of man
He also leaves no impression
To think that all is for the best
Is but a naive notion
Of which no one should agree
For all merely is but reality
Not for better or worse
All merely is or is not.

* A reference to the book Guns Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond