Life Past Today

Life Past Today

Even the most determined of soldiers
Will put sown his gun
And let peace conquer violence
Every once in a while

Even the hardest of criminals
Will sit back in his chains
And let peace save from violence
Every once in a while

Even the worst of ‘frenimeis’
Will put aside their differences
To help a friend in need
Every once in a while

And still human beings are killing each other
One by one
We are ridding the world
Of it’s inventors, it’s creators, innovators, deciders, and authors
Of it’s future politicians, lawyers, and doctors

We just sit by and listen
As the violence continues
It’s unhindered and ugly path
Determined to devour our species
At last

Our breath fogs the glass
As we watch wide eyed
As wars tear apart our world
And leave scars in the places
Of young boys and girls

We watch wide eyed
As our sons and daughters
Give their lives
As food and water
Can’t reach the deprived
As judgment and discrimination
Become ever more popular in our over-populous nations

 
Oh, we watch wide eyed
As wealth stays with the wealthy
As health stays with the healthy
As people leave their houses to burn
Because they never learned
To save for a time
When the tables turned

Oh, and the tables have turned
They’ve turned their backs on us
Because we lack trust
And we lack funds
While the upper class has trust funds
That could feed entire nations
And give children their educations

And oh, our relationships run dry
As we all try to hide
What we’re feeling inside
Because all of our lives
We’ve been taught
Not math, no not history
But how to live life Scott free

We’ve been taught
To make do with what we’ve got
Then to make more
Much more than we need,
And not use it to feed.
To feed the starving mouths
The starving brains
The starving pains.
But no we use it to give ourselves more
Of what we don’t need

And so we just sit back
As our berth fogs the glass
And leaves scars.

We stare wide eyed,
As our relationships run dry,
Because we’ve been hiding all of our lives

Hiding from the starving, the illiterate
The overly rich, the discriminates
From the children, those children
So hungry

So I say
Let us stop hiding
Let’s give them what they need
A chance, a say
A life past Today