If I Could Change Anything, What Would it Be?

If I could change anything, what would it be?

Would it be land or would it be sea

I could stop the sun, though that wouldn’t do much good

Perhaps I might ponder more not on want, but on should

There is so much beauty in this little world

So much unseen, and so much unheard

To change just one thing, I think, would do

To make the world better for me and you too

Should I make it so there aren’t any wars?

No more killing or shooting or breaking in doors?

But if I did that, the hunger’s not gone

Doesn’t that mean that the bad guys have won?

Wouldn’t we then be under they’re thumb

Forced to comply, with nowhere to run?

No, if there was one thing that I could change

From the heart, evil selfishness I would estrange.

For is this not where all wars start?

And anything else that burdens the heart?

Because we are selfish, we fear and we hate

We base decision on feeling, and yet call it fate

Many a soul was crushed and despaired

When revealing their heart, their loved ones ran scared

But when selfishness dies, the stone heart comes alive

You no longer face death, you can gladly survive

For when we have naught but kindness inside

There is no need for anyone, their true selves to hide.

Together in peace, the world can unite

And sleep easy and deep all through the night.

 

 

 

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