What Makes the World Go Round

What makes the world go round
Some people say it's love or joy
Friendship or happiness
They say G-d makes the world go round
Causes everything from love to hate

Those types of people
The happy kind
Believe that without friends
Without people to love
Life wouldn't be worth living

But do you want to know a little secret?
The big truth?
Life isn't worth living anyway
If you took the love out of the world
It would still spin on it's orbit
Few people would actually care
It's not really a secret

And then even if the happy people are wrong
Wouldn't you like to believe that?
That we as humans aren't really that selfish?
But we are

Some people think money makes the world go round
That's pretty logical
Because we are obsessed with money
And as much as we think that money can't buy everything
It really can
Except for the rare types of people
The happy kind

Lots of people have more scientific beliefs
That it's our natural instinct to survive
The planets' orbit and all that junk
Time
Mass
And energy
That's logical
And neat

Still, I believe in something else
Maybe the happy people make the world go round
Remove them
And all that would be left is the huge rat race
The terrors of the war
All of the normal people's obsessions
And the world would collapse

What makes the world go round?
Who knows?
Who cares?
I'll tell you another secret
None of it matters
What matters is that the world does go round
Or does it?
Again
It's not really a secret