Why Can't We?
Why can't we find a place
Where no rats are in the race
Where only idle things prevail
Where, together, we could sail
Upstream from all the madness
So far from all the sadness
Serenely would it lead
To a place where we are freed
To be as naked as at birth
Just us and Mother Earth
There, we'll dig ourselves a hole
And bury deep our souls
And in a thousand years they'll find
A human time-capsule entwined
And they will gaze upon
with awe
That which they have not
seen before
An eternal snapshot
of devotion
To fill their hearts
like an ocean
And from our seed
A world re-born
A new beginning
A brand-new dawn
And love shall be
the seed they sow
A world where hatred
shall not grow
And lazy as
a summer breeze
They'll sail across
life's calming seas
Until the end
of ever more
When stars & space
become our floor
Our souls to drift
on solar swirls
And spread the love
to new-found worlds
...not much to ask is it? ?
John Botterill
Tue 23rd Nov 2021 11:18
I love the positive and affirming tone of your poem.,Stephen, as well the ironic conclusion. Thank for this. Thought - provoking. John Botterill