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Wishful Thinking

Where goes the world of peace that we as children took for granted?

Have we not done enough to this world, its people?

Life, the gift of birth, is a common thread between us all

We must rely on the commonality of humanness in order to save humanity

Else, we falter, we perish in the rubble of defiance, destruction, and disrepair

 

Where are those leaders that have promised change?

They seem to now cower in their provided for castles

Using the many subjects as shields, breaking the promises they made

Ultimately destroying the hopes and constructing only bitterness

Among the many that allowed themselves to be used as pawns

 

I challenge the world to join a unified solution

There are so many “International days of” on the internet

Why can’t there be a day of International Peace

A day where the world puts down defenses and offenses

With a hopeful success that would lead to a week, month, years, decades

 

Let us see children smile again, not see them as subjects

On the nightly evening news

They are meant to carry forth our world

Not be caretakers of the barren and desolate

But to be gardeners of this once green filled earth