by Cheryl Burger

Created on: January 31, 2009

If I could, I would find a cure for all life's ills.

To reach inside a child and strangle cancer out.

Children too small to understand all the complexities

that most adults can not fathom themselves.

If I could, I would drown all crime

and make it a past action not present.

Changing meanness to positive actions

to over take the sickness with a cheerful recourse.

If I could, I would feed the children of the world

so bellies would not cause them to cry from the hurt

or see the look of distance in their mother's eyes.

To give them all a drink of water purest ever,

cool, and quenching against the heat of day

to offer comfort and ward off diseases.

If I could I would be a scientist, to find a way to

disarm all bombs, and harmful tools of destruction, I would!

If I could I would write a peace treaty and take it to each

head of state and plead with them to sign it, and to

assure them it would not be a mistake,.....but a promise!

If I could, I comfort a person so lost, offer support

a prayer, a story, or perhaps most important my time!

If I could, I would ask the world to get along most

to cast out evil and show new generations the love of trust.

To assure small children that being safe is a wonderful notion,

once again and not just for we in America, but throughout all lands!

To use efforts to support each other in places of breaking our brothers down.

So if I could, I'd pass the word that being kind and thoughtful is not

just something we share as human beings, but for our globe

our Motherland, that we have been given from above

from a Creator much larger than a big bang,

but perhaps they both are entwined!

I would, if I could, I will begin with you

and unknown spirit that feels the same, and perhaps

this little poem will catch on, and we all will improve not just us

but the climate control, world peace, and things on a grander scheme.

So I did, I shared my thoughts and that's that,

and now it's up to you, begin by being selfless

for if we all decide to allow others to ruin it for all of man

then what is the point of manners, education or prayer or even power?

So, I can only do, what I did do, and this is place a few words

before the lot of you, and ask for some plausible consideration of a few.

If I could, I would make all children laugh and full of cookies and milk,

placed in their mommy's arms and seen in daddy's promises and his eyes!

But since I can't all by myself, I am asking all of you to help,

won't all of you reach out to someone and try some goodness out?

This is what I would do, now I have one for you.

What would you do if the same question were to present itself again?

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