AS I SIT WITH THOUGHTS I CAN’T ERASE,
MY MIND GOES BACK TO EARLIER DAYS
WHEN WE WERE YOUNG AND KNEW NO FEAR
AND NEVER THOUGHT TO SHED A TEAR.
WE KNEW LITTLE THEN OF PAIN AND SORROW
NO THOUGHT FOR PRESENT OR TOMORROW.
THE CAREFREE LIFE TOO QUICK DID FLY
THEN ALL TOO SOON WE LEARNED TO CRY.
THE GROWING UP, THE RETRIBUTION
PROBLEMS TO WHICH WE’D NO SOLUTION.
TIMES WHEN WE WOULD STAND AND STARE
AND WONDER DID WE REALLY CARE.
THE WARS,THE PESTILENCE AND PLAGUE,
OUR POLITICIANS LOOKING VAGUE.
NO ANSWER TO OUR TALES OF WOE
JUST BLOCK IT OUT, JUST LET IT GO
THE POOR, THE HOMELESS, DESTITUTE
DO WE REALLY GIVE A HOOT
DO WE CARE WHO LIVES, WHO DIES
DEAF EARS TURNED TO PLEADING CRIES.
PEOPLE DWELL IN ABJECT SQUALOR.
“HEY MISTER CAN YOU SPARE A DOLLAR”
WITH QUICKENED PACE WE WALK ON BY
WE DON’T SEE THE TEARS IN A CHILDS EYE.
WE SEE THAT CHILD IN ABJECT PAIN
AND WONDER WILL IT EAT AGAIN.
NO ONE LOOKS, NO ONE CARES.
MORE INTERESTED IN STOCKS AND SHARES
WHILE TALKING LOUD OF LIVING FREE
WE DON’T SHARE LIFE’S EQUALITY
WE ARE TOO CONCERNED WITH WHO WE ARE
WHO GIVES A DAMN ABOUT MYANMAR
BUT THEN ONE DAY WE WAKE TO FIND
CHAOS OF A DIFFERENT KIND
A PLAGUE ABOUT TO SWEEP THE WORLD
IN HORRIFIC MAJESTY UNFURLED.
A PLAGUE TO RAVAGE EAST AND WEST.
A PLAGUE FROM WHICH THERE ’ll BE NO REST.
AND NOW THE WORLD WILL RISE AS ONE
TO VANQUISH AND TO OVERCOME
THE WORLD ORDER NOW COMPLETELY CHANGED
OUR WAY OF LIFE IS REARRANGED.
THERE’S NOTHING ‘TWEEN THE RICH AND POOR
THE PLAGUE WILL KNOCK ON ANY DOOR.
DOCTORS, NURSES GIVE THEIR ALL
BRAVE MEN AND WOMEN RISE AND FALL.
HEROES WHO LEAD. DON’T WILT OR BEND
AND PRAYERS ARE SAID IT SOON WILL END.
FROM FEAR WE HOPE WE SOON ARE FREE
AND OUR WORLD RETURNED TO NORMALITY.
WE GRIEVE FOR ALL THE DEAD AND DYING
AND PRAY THE WORLD WILL SOON STOP CRYING.
HOPE THAT BROKEN HEARTS CAN MEND
AND HOPE THAT WE CAN SHORTLY SEND
A MESSAGE FULL OF LOVE AND CHEER
AROUND THE WORLD FOR ALL TO HEAR.
BUT MIGHT I SAY JUST IN CONCLUSION
THAT THIS OLD WORLD IN IT’S CONFUSION
SHOULD ALL STAND AND CHEER AS ONE
AND LAUD THE DEEDS THAT MAN HAS DONE.
EXTEND A HAND TO ONE ANOTHER
AND TREAT EACH OTHER AS A BROTHER.
IT’S BEEN SAID BEFORE, BUT THIS I KNOW
IT’S ABOUT GIVING RESPECT AND LOVE A GO.
©Roger Cracknell May 2020
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