APED – Prompt 25: Heal the World

This poem was written for A Prompt Each Day, a daily dose of inspiration.  For today’s prompt – we were given a phrase (Heal the World) to inspire our writing.  This is where today’s prompt took me today.  I hope you like it.

 

We’ve grown

. . . matured

And knowledge gained

We’re our own women and men.

 

And yet

. . . somehow

We have unlearned

How to make this world whole again.

 

In past

. . . as children

We once played

And learned to love and share.

 

But now

. . . as adults

We strive to gain

With nothing left to spare.

 

It matters

. . . not

All that we have

Our desires we must fulfill.

 

 

While others

. . . starve

We choose to feed

And eat way past our fill.

 

While others

. . . need

We look away

And act like we don’t see.

 

Yet others

. . . suffer

And cry in pain

And we don’t hear their plea.

 

We say

. . . change

Is what we need

but there’s not time

there’s too much greed

and I can’t share

who shares with me?

And no one cares

Just let me be.

 

Desire to

. . . change

Is nothing new

Alive each day and age

But we can only heal the world

When we strive to BE that change.

 

© S. J. 2015