Sometimes Change is Good

John Searles

Sometimes
I often wonder why
why do so many tears often drop,
why do so many children always have to die
why doesn't the violence ever stop?

Sometimes
I sit back and think
about poverty
violence
and the hood
about the drugs
girls
and drinks
about the small children
who learn that this life is good.

Sometimes I wonder
what does it take for us to open our eyes
what is it going to take for us to see
to realize
everythime a child cries
it slowly destroys a part inside
you and me.

I want the tears to stop falling
I want my children to grow healthy
and strong
to answer the Lord's calling
to do what's right and
not wrong.

I
am making a change in my life
I
want to go home to my family, and
my baby girl
to find me a good
honest
wife
and to help make this a
better world.

John Searles
#R14717
Menard C.C.
P.O. Box 711
Menard, IL, 62259

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