World peace doesn’t happen because of feel-good laws.
History proves this over and over again. World peace doesn’t happen by taking away a person’s right to self protection. World peace doesn’t happen because a peace protester can yell louder than everyone else.
Humans will never bring about world peace
Unless Everyone (yes, that’s everyone with a capital E) can figure out how to give up selfishness. And since that doesn’t seem to have a snowball’s chance in Hades of happening, then world peace is just a…
Cliché
We want the answers to all of our questions, and
We want the world in the palm of our hand
We want to rise up; rise up and conquer
Let all the world know just where we stand
We want to live in a fat-free environment, and
We want to make sure the ozone is intact,
And so we watch all those service commercials, and
It’s just so easy to sit back and react.
Is it just melodrama…for me to feel this way?
I wonder…is it just me,
Or does it all sound so cliché?
Does it sound that way…so cliché?
We lend our money to so many nations, and
Still we struggle to pay off our own debts.
We hope for world peace and ending the hunger,
But will we ever do what no one has done yet?
We train ourselves and prepare for the future, but
Each day the future takes on a new look.
We might do better to look inside our own hearts, and
We might discover it’s not in some law book!
Is it just melodrama for me to feel this way?
I wonder…is it just me, or does it all sound so cliché?
Does it sound that way…so cliché?
© 1996 Tony Funderburk
Stay tuned…
Tony