My father always told me I can't change people

I can only change myself

If I had the power....

I would change the girls on the playground who thought they were cooler

I would change the teacher who thought my math problems needed a straighter ruler

I would change the boyfriend who left me because he had an addiction

And I'd change the messy roommate who leaves rude refridgerator notes of fiction

I would change my parents stress and their hypertension and aging skin

And even change my grandma so she could feel happy again

While I'm doing so much changing I might as well not stop

Afterall, with all this changing power

I can go to the end of the earth to make my change POP

I would change Hitler to be a nicer man

I would change every person who  ever shot a gun to someone with a peaceful plan

I would change the first man infected with HIV...

To be a man with clean clean blood

I would change anyone who ever suffered to be a happy human in love

But my father always told me I can't change people

I can only change myself

I can't change people

What I WILL change is myself

To be a voice for the other people

A voice to end all suffering,  HIV, and bullet wounds

A voice to tell my parents I love them how they are

But don't get hypertension over selling the house or the car

A voice to speak to many things, especially myself

To tell me to stop dreaming and to start changing human health