All I'm asking is

Why would all those old men

Be willing to make any kind of compromise

Knowing that they will not be the ones

Suffering the consequences

Needing to adjust to not only new rules in a game but to a new game entirely

Since the old one no longer has a board to play on

Why should someone who will only see another ten maybe twenty years

Care for what will happen in thirty

Why should someone who has lived a safe and joy filled life

Care for the kind of life that comes after

All that they desire is eternal fame in a ball game

Who cares if they fail and drop the ball

Their time was well spent and full of laughter

They drop the ball that is made of glass and maybe some will suffer a cut

And what they don't understand is

The ball of glass is us

Our earth and our future

We have no part in this game

We don't know the rules

We didn't make them

And we won't be able to play fair

Because there will always be these old men 

who have nothing to lose and don't understand 

the difference between 

cheating in a game and cheating a planet