The Lit Candle

There are people around our Earth Who fight for life through lack and dearth There are thousands without clean water And mothers who starve to feed their daughter Our world can’t be a perfect place Whilst we assume one’s traits by race And abuse some due to gender But there is hope, for we can render A better place for our kids and theirs If we mend the social fabric’s tears You ask what I’d change in the past? But that’ll accomplish nothing fast There’s nothing wrong with wishful thinking But as we plot, opportunity’s shrinking I’m focused more on present day And improving tomorrow as much as I may We care only for making our living As we disregard the value of giving But there’s so much more that we can do For we’re at the top; the lucky few We weep for those affected by war But forget dirty water kills far more Causing 80% of diseases We can’t move forward until this ceases These people can’t afford a well So come a drought, they fight through hell For only a twenty dollar fee One person gets water, and a future; that’s key But we have more to worry about The road to equality’s a difficult route Women and children sold to the sex trade Suffering the brothel, they pray for a raid With 1.2 million kids sold every year Not just in Africa, Asia, but here This is a subject that we shun as lewd But I can tell you what’s truly rude Turning our backs on women worldwide, A broken system we just fortified Today we live in a marketplace That’s global in nature; it’s a shared space But we ignore sharing’s definition For it has no place in our capitalist mission People worldwide just need some aid And cooperative economics means we all get paid Perhaps you don’t have money to spare So send them a loan to show that you care The issues are many; the topics diverse More than I cover in this simple verse But I have a lifetime I’d like to commit The passion is here, the candle is lit