by Josh Skyler
I live in a world where to hurt is love and to love is pain
I live in a world where the innocent run and the guilty reign
I live in a world where we are taught to be quite but to speak is shamed
I live in a world where we are not unique but all the “same”! Well so they say.
In my world houses are made out of tin
In my world lives are taken before they begin
In my world mothers are left to raise their kids
In my world fathers leave for the shops never to be seen
If only it were up to me
If it were up to me people would not die,
If it were up to me children would not starve
If it were up to me poverty would be eradicated, the environment, decontaminated. Unemployment, under saturated
If it were up to me
If it were up to me love would be our second language
If it were up to respect for one another would be the norm
If it were up to me wars would not exist
If it were up to me all lives would matter, humans would be full of happiness bursting out in laughter
If it were up to me
Refugees would have homes, animals would not go extinct
Children would go to school without the fear of being bullied discriminated against or even shot and killed in the process of getting an education
If it were up to me
If it were up to me we would appreciate time our with one another before it is to late
If it were up to me everyone would take life into their own hands and learn that they create their own fate
If it were up to me we would leave without fear, no guns, no walls, no gates
If it were up to me
But it is up to me, for I am the present, I am the future
My actions today create my reality tomorrow
NO, my actions today create OUR reality tomorrow
I am a part of the new generation, a generation connected
So I choose to make this world a better place today
Because it is up to me.
It is up to you
It is up to us!
