Count Your Blessings

Count Your Blessings Count them One by one them I hear this desolation As I look around me Woe so lonely All this population Left to wondering What their lives mean Any meaning Just existing Still we are told To count our blessings One by one them Count your blessings At least you have eyes to see with Limbs to do with A heart to feel with A life to live with Everything to give But still we feel so empty Something missing Any meaning Just existing Fear our only answer to life And greed our only answer To fear And we all could be so happy So very, very happy If we could just turn our hands to helping The pleasure of giving Turn our world to caring This paradise we live in Are we just warring tribes With different colours opposing Religious and short sighted ***** opinions We could all be so very happy Save our children Our happy children But instead we sit and count our blessings One by one them Count your blessings A mouthful of food A sip of water A headache pill An amputated arm A PhD degree An education 200 pounds of overweight Malnutrition Slum shanty cardboard box Second vacation holiday home Feeding our stomachs Feeding our ego’s Romanticising our desperate state Of denial We are drowning In our own Refuse pile We could all be so very happy How we want to be So very happy This world is so wealthy Save our people Save our future Save our planet Save our children If we could just begin with caring Start with sharing The joy of helping The pleasure of giving Proud reward of being We would know then How to count our blessings One by one them Count your blessings Seven billion Seven billion