Is There Hope in a World so Cold

Is there hope in a world so cold

Will we learn from the lessons told

Can’t you see where we are going

Is there time to change with knowing

Empty heads, smiling faces, scared of everything. Living their lives like it really matters what happened the other day.

Living petty lives, living petty lives

Do not even make them feel insecure they’ll go at you tooth and nail. Because they are much too shallow to realize the responsibility is theirs.

You’re ugly but you’re human you must have mutated genes cause the master craftsman molded us in an image not unlike its own, each detail as perfect as the next, no mutations, no mistakes, just the ability to choose.

What makes a human beautiful? For some it might be looks, but looks can only go so far cause they can’t hide the real you forever.

You see the beautiful people so blissfully in love but then before you know it they are happier apart. Their looks were not enough to make love work. The attraction gave way to reality and the reality is, as we have always known: beauty is only skin-deep.

It takes much more than a pretty face to make a beautiful person. Beauty is seen in compassion and caring, in forgiveness and seeing the good in another, in forgetting about self to do the unselfish thing without bringing it back to self.

What can a person gain from another’s pain and when you think about it, what do they gain? Granted there are those whose looks, likes, demeanor welcome us to criticize but when all is said and done cruelty does not consider the scars left for life.

Paizli Palmrose © 2009