by Cheryl Burger

Created on: August 08, 2008   Last Updated: August 10, 2008

Not enough gas or oil they say, it is way up in price again.
The big, old, fat men in suits argue, as our young men and women fight.
Do they understand what for, or is it made up to them to justify,
to make them feel what they have been taught, to be a fighting machine of one?
How can the world be in such a mess, and it is contagious at most.
The children in Africa are suffering from gunfire, rape, and a loss of their dear mothers.

The AIDS epidemic is rampant and seems to be growing in size.
The kids from Indonesia are being taught to be soldiers too, just so they too will fight.
It seems that in this place we call home that all are taking up arms,
but are they taking time to see, the death that is being left behind?
Are they educated, and do they know that peace can hold a dearer prize?
So, why should we all be so cynical and think all there are are weapons in disquise?
This entire war was based on unfounded truths, weapons of mass destruction
and look what has happened my friends so may soilders have died!
No matter what side your on, the mothers of all these soldiers, they too cry!
So get on bended knee, and ask God to see us through
and be with us as we all try, to make peace with our world too.
The trees are being cut at record speed, and animals have no homes
where do they go when that have none and try to survive as we do?
We have brains with reason, but at times I feel this isn't so
for when people don't even think, when they hand a young boy a gun
they are tortured and told to kill, and they don't understand,
"Why do I have to kill this old man he hasn't commited a crime!"
But when they ask, the next day brings a cousin shot in the head,
and the young boy with death in his blank eyes, he never asks again.
So, is it time that we all look around, because we all should be friends
but in place of this we all want more, and all we will find if this
keeps up,... is an end to our wonderful world.
So when death knocks, you can't say you haven't been told
because I have told you so, so do something,
anything,.... to make this a better world.
Because right now the worst is here
and the condition is getting much worse.
So please ask God.... to help us out and see if
it changes for the better, for all He wants is for
us to know that life can't go on like this...
.....for no bloody reason and this I tell you for sure!

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