This World

In this world things are all going astray,

People are forced to leave there homes when they wish to stay,

Kids get shot on their streets and watch as their short lives flash by,

All over the world emotions are running high,

With all this meaningless fighting in other countries going on,

We aren’t paying attention to things in our own backyard that are going wrong,

People getting married and divorced in the blink of an eye,

Parents abandoning their children and leaving them to die,

Hatred, pain, and sadness plaguing us all like a curse,

Is it even possible that things could get worse?

People thieving and deceiving is there really no end?

Is there someone out there with a hand they can lend?

Please pull us out of this dark pit that we’ve dug,

Embrace us with feelings all warm and snug,

Lead us back to the path that we seem to have lost,

The path of love, justice, honesty and integrity that we must find no matter the cost.

-By M.K. Scott (a.k.a Katura)