Beware the April Fool!

Beware, prepare, beware, prepare!
the world is coming to a start!
will you define it with science
or create it with art?

do you just bow to it in prayer
when Spring bursts into the air?
still, can't you see the end-of-world gloom?
the certainty of mushroom cloud doom?
but do you threaten the world with hope?
you really buy that illegal dope?
should you handstand in the street
asking danger to a merry meet?
or step off the cliff and fall into love
it's as good down here as it is above.

but whatever you will,
whatever you may
start the world new
on April Fool’s Day!