A Happy Poem

I am to write a happy poem for a change To enjoy the sunshine, not the rain Going to try to be like others smiling Enjoy some time, ignorant in bliss Today I ignore what is wrong in the world So many others less fortunate than me They can wallow in their own troubled land To far away for me to see I will preach a message of love, of glee A warm handshake for those that be Happy in all of their daily tasks Forgetting the world I will just think of me Already I feel this discussion is flawed As I walk alone along my street Because all of the suffering is just as close As the person begging on the floor by my feet So until this world is healed of its woes When mankind gives as well as receive My writings will be dark and forbode Of a time that struggles deep inside me