an optimistic view in regards to one of man's greatest sources of misery

from one little seed
from what's sometimes considered a mistake
so much destruction, misery, pain, hate, violence, corruption, anxiety, distress and death has come.

lives have ended
in automobile accidents - caused by them
families have been torn apart
never to reconcile - because someone stole another's
an entire continent's people
have swam in blood because of them
friends murdering friends
metaphorically or literally,
in most cases, literally - because one loved it more than the other, but one felt the other didn't deserve it
oh so many suicides - because they wouldn't return calls
letters
or even the most remote gestures.

I do not speak of wars
or anything
remotely violent
although some of them
are so sharp
they could injure, without proper warning,
I'm talking about
nothing more than 2 lumps of fat
and 2, well 3, holes,
nothing more, nothing less.