The Hope in the World Today

My writing has always come from my pain

So to write about what’s Awesome seems insane

Are you to tell me there’s a silver lining?

Are you to tell me hope is hiding?

I know that you’re right but I must confess

It’s hard to see under all of this stress

The stress of college and final exams

To the hardship of death and all its demands

Sometimes I regret that I forget to notice the truth

 Life is pretty awesome I have proof.

Did you know only 13.5 percent of the world’s population is starving?

That means 86.5 percent of people are adequately nourished.

 That’s pretty awesome a solid B+ the news makes it look like we’re maybe a D

But seeing this opens my eyes to see.

The world really isn’t as bad as I thought

The world really isn’t as bad as I was taught

 The statistics get better just sit right here.

I’ll tell you why you shouldn’t live your life in fear.

When the us population has more than tripled since 1960

The crime rates have less then doubled.

I can’t say the world is perfect far from it but I can tell you this it’s better than you think

When divorce is really high and the news a lie you might think the worst is on the brink

But even war today isn’t nearly as bad

The number of deaths in World War 2 was forty million

Where in the war on terror less than two million not billion or trillion

Like the us national debt

This may be the only thing I would actually fret

Life really isn’t as bad as it seems

Though the divorce rates are high

And the debt is obscene

There is always a silver lining.

Look I’m not being fanciful or unrealistic

Everything I wrote was a real statistic

My writing might come from a place of pain
but to think the world is at its worst ever been would be insane.