Member Poem

I’ve got a past but it’s all behind me

I’ve got a future but I won’t let it  blind me

To what’s in the present and what needs to happen

I can think great thoughts but this world needs some action

Humanity has a mountain of troubles to conquer

If you don’t immediately start running up that hill

Before we know it we will be running on a treadmill

Losing breath and hope quicker than sand

In the hour glass of the earth

To which we all should lend a hand

This world is made of glass

It’s unbelievably brittle

We think we can see all

But we see so little

This planet is a never ending riddle

With too many questions to answer

And too many answers to fiddle

Is there a right and wrong?

Is there a good and evil?

And I’m stuck in the middle

Along with too many technicalities

To criticize and belittle

And I started this poem saying the world needs change

And it does

But no matter how many times I pretend to be a superhero

It doesn’t make me one

And sometimes I daydream I’m a wizard or spy

I want it to be real but all I can do is try

I want to reach for the stars

But they seem so far and I should stick to this planet

But there are too many faults here for me to possibly fix

And I’m out of tricks and words for this poem

And I need to relax

But humanity needs to be free

And Gandhi told me the only person you can change it is me

And my glasses are foggy but I don’t need them to see

All the pain and the war and the prisoners of greed

And I’m not sure if I’m the person to lead

But change needs to happen I can’t let it be

Too much disease and hatred and hunger and war

I cannot stand it anymore

Too many angry people who won’t let love in their heart

And once they do that while it’s only to start of

Happiness and peace and kindness and joy

So let my army of pacifists deploy

and soon we will climb beyond the mountain of former trouble

to look down at the valley where we are now and sigh

For it is only on ourselves that we can truly rely