Out Through the Door

I stand and I gaze out through the door as I wonder what else life might have in store then I step out the door and into the cold and suddenly I feel so very old as I look around at our world and see a place that's so different and strange to me a place like the stories that I used to hear of a world swept up in hatred and fear where children can't sing or laugh or play when bombs reign down on them night and day where so many live through their innocent years filled with such sadness and so many tears And as I look on at this world that I see I can't help but wonder what more can there be what more can our world and our children endure of a place where tomorrow is never quite sure that place where so many have bled and died that place where so many parents have cried I turn and I gaze back through the door and wonder will this be forevermore then I cry as I think of what could be what could be for you and for me if we taught peace instead of war and helped our children to be so much more Kevin Ryan Duncil