A Wonderful World
A WONDERFUL WORLD
One of my favorite songs whenever it's sung,
"What a Wonderful World" is right on my tongue.
The melody's fine and the lyrics are great
but other thoughts sometime get to me
and make my heart ache.
Louie Armstrong sings it best.
He's way ahead of all the rest.
But is the world really such a wonder?
It makes you stop and then
ponder.
They quickly say the world is warming
but we can't say it was without warning.
Climate change affects the weather
And that doesn't make things better.
For the trees of green and red roses too
may not bloom as Louie sings it to you.
We'll have droughts and floods
and skies not so blue.
The clouds of white are not so bright
as storms brew over the lands.
And the shaking of hands
seem to be more of fright
as the winds stir up the desert sands.
We have "Arab Springs" and children are shot
and babies will cry, "please forget me not."
As the world seems to ache
from these things we forsake
for the love that we seem to have forgot.
The world is quite full of 6.5 billion
and the people starving are
more than 6 million.
Can that make it a wonderful world?
The friends who shake hands and say,
"How do you do?"
are they really saying, "I love you?"
The song says so but we really don't know
if they truly mean it or it's just for show.
But when we consider all things
about how the world really sings
and always ends up with a smile,
we know somehow the world will get by
as long as we give it a real try.
The world has been here for such a long time
and somehow has survived no matter what sign
through storms, earthquakes and more.
People live on regardless of any war
or disease that is other than benign.
Because no matter what dread
it can really be said
it is still a wonderful world.
And Louie is right as he sings with delight
of rainbows and bright stars in the night.
The message of the song is very profound
and with a little patience the world will rebound.
So even if it seems so imperiled,
indeed, it is still a wonderful world.
Copyright © Leonard Kleeman | Year Posted 2013
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