We are so small

This world is covered in destructive hurricanes that howl everywhere above us

What's out there is violent and dangerous

Beyond our understanding

Were we meant to get this far?

We are so small

I suppose this is where we have always been

We have no other choice

Surviving here is all we have known

Some of us seemed to have known it better than others

We are so small

We seek shelter and cover ourselves in land for protection

Deep in underground burrows, we carve through anything in our path

Only so many places to hide

When you take a spot for yourself, you take it from somebody else

There is no sharing here

You take it or you don’t

If you don’t, you have nothing

We are so small

To keep all of the space for yourself, that's power

To be able to keep it away from others, that’s respect

To learn new ways of hoarding it, that's innovation

To have others gather it for you, that's leadership

To make them fight over it, that’s war

Humanity needs no hurricanes to bring its ruin, it has created them amongst itself

To think so naively that this world is what would be our downfall

We are so small

And what can I do about it

I am so small

Without even realizing it, I have understood this my whole life

My friends, my family

We all have

All our lives have been a struggle to survive

Survival has always been a turning point

But there is so much out there for us

And we want to take it 

Not to own or destroy it

But to thrive in it

We can be different

And we have been

I see it in all of us

We are so small

And yet we try our hardest to be great 

But no matter what we do

No matter how we much we personally choose to change

Choose to improve ourselves

Things stay the same

But they cannot stay the same for long

It makes sense that things are this way now

But just as logic demanded that we change to survive

So too does logic demand that we change again

We must

And we must all be part of it