If I could change one thing in this world today

It would be the way people think today

Quick to judge, we can be at times,

Quick to lose ourselves because we can’t understand what we see outside

Quite often I see people laugh at others

Quite often I see those other stay quiet like the long lost brothers

It’s an ugly face to wear and show

It plagues the young and hurts the old

It’s not good to judge our fellow sisters and brothers

Equal we are by race and color

Unique we look but still one we are

We talk, we feel, we love

Like every other we are no different

But still people judge and laugh

Jokes are made

And in return tears are paid

If I could I want to change the way we see others

Educate and expose cultures to others

To beauty in the difference we each grow up with

And the similarities that we are as people.

Learn to accept others with love and care

And maybe one hand will join across the world

Uniting nations to nations

Enemies to enemies

And we can appreciate who we are how we came to be

If I could change one thing this it would be

But first it starts with me

And soon it’ll spread like wild fire to those around me

And like falling domino, one after another we’ll knock down the walls of judgmental minds

One by one we’ll be able to see from the inside

And in the end

We will live a happy life.

-          Jeffrey Segovia