Wishful Thinking

If only politicians, used the truth rather than lie,


If only it could matter, that the starving people die,


If only world economy, did not depend on war,


Please God can't we put some things back, to where they were before?

If only global business, helped the poor and not the rich,


If only that the future, could be light – not black as pitch.


If only that tomorrow, I could see one ray of light,


Please God can't life be something but a mindless endless fight?

If I could help the people, who have nothing and no say,


The many millions who have less, than one dollar a day,


If I could help them how to build, some decent place to live,


Please God I'd gladly sell my soul, if that I could but give.

If anyone would listen, if anybody cared,


If peace could be the policy – if anybody dared.


If we could be to others, as we'd have them be to we,


Please God could not this tainted world, a better place to be?

If we could stop the hating, of the way that others pray,


If we could just believe in God, and not what clerics say,


If the Acts of the Apostles, or the Hadiths of Islam,


Please God they're not the word of You, just cant of mortal man.

If I could stop the anger, that permeates my mind,


If somewhere in this crazy world, decency I could find,


If running after money, weren't the be and end of all,


Please God I'd like to live my life, not back against the wall.

Poetry by PedanticBarSteward

PedanticBarSteward

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