Shift the paradigm

"Life isn't fair" she lamented
I wondered, "what the @*$&!
Had I knew there would be drama
I would have gone to Wolfgang Pucks.

Shift the paradigm.
Shift the paradigm.

We indulge our egos,
the fear of change,
that dinner every Friday
will keep us from derange.

Shift the paradigm.
Shift the paradigm.

So the inevitable occurs,
A life-changing event,
We thought we knew the course
but found that it was spent.

Shift the paradigm.
Shift the paradigm.

The consequence of non-actions,
those forks we never took,
Running out of time,
we steal one last,
desperate look.

Shifted.
Stop.