Peace

Why can’t the world work peaceably?

So simple is the solution

Why don’t they see it as clearly.

A little compromise and understanding is necessary

The world is too large for small and petty vendettas personally

The world is not a playground

Where war is a game

There are no two teams

Where world leaders captain for the same

I don’t see the reason

For these standoffish natures

The cause of widespread death and destruction

Which surely, do not benefit any one.

Has the world not learnt from its past lessons?

Why can’t those at fault

Accept their faults?

Why can’t we try to be peaceable nations?

And be amicable for once.

What do those groups gain

From blowing bodies into smithereens?

Are their ideologies gaining any acceptance?

Or are they even ruling over people.

As far as I can see

They govern the ill diabolical

Those with no country, no identity

And who have lost all humans redeeming qualities

A terrain rendered useless by their own hands

Why does there have to be such hatred in their hearts?

So dark that they are a shriveled black mess

Nothing but hard flesh

With no regard for life’s blessedness

I can’t tackle all of them

Not in one day

Or one week

Or one month

Or for years probably

But it saddens my heart

To hear and feel so deeply

When there is no solution that I see

I, like so many, shut my eyes and ears

To all these single myriad fears

So that individuals life may go on

For me, at least

But I wait and prepare for the day

When I can do and not just say

Just a little bit to move along the way

Even if I might not save the day

I want to be a worker, not a hero

Help, if not erode

And so I hope

That tomorrow will dawn brighter

For a better day,

For a better life,

And a better world.