The World's Problems

it's an impossible perception
an attempt to wrap your head around the entire world's problems
a sum of the evil and sin and horribleness that surrounds an entire planet
that surrounds a person, in an exact and insurmountable way.

i dare you to quantify it.
to calculate the color the world must be when all news stories are conglomerated
to graph the worlds spiral, to distance the bottom of the earth
i dare you to weigh the problem's of the world
a mass of mass destruction,
our biggest weapon being ourselves.

it's unimaginable.
the things that each person has seen.
i am ashamed that my own horrible memories are not unique,
not impressive when compared to the average woman.
i am ashamed that my world as i know it is filled with hate.
that religion breeds contempt.
that breeding breeds contempt.
that contempt kills.
if you tilt your head to the side, and squint just enough to forget your heart,
the entire world will go black.
and nastiness will pour from our walls like the blood of our brothers,
and the entire concept of good will seem laughable,
our death palpable
our lives disabled!

but, it is not with squinted eyes we should stand,
our cocked heads were never born this way,
but dragged towards the earth's core from the size of our own egos,
our necks unable to support our own stupidity.

and the calculations derived -- and the newspapers' accounts
they all fail to mention an incalculable factor

the human heart.

with enough good in it to rid the world of voids.
and, it i had to quantify it, it houses negative one million pounds,
and you may laugh at my literary nonsense,
but, for as horrible of a life as you may have lived,
evened the hardened soul cannot fail to see the shear beauty of love,
as horrified and as blood ridden as it may be.

in truth, a heart can carry the world's problems with ease.
and easily, your heart can beat the bad,
and beat the bad right from the earth.

so, i dare you to quantify the world,
and come up with
anything
but a pile of hope.

because the world's problems may be vast, but
hope
is the world's solution.