What If the World Ends?
What if the world does end in 2012 on the 21st of December.
What about your life will you want to remember?
What are you going to do from now til then?
Are you going to ask “Why?” over and over again?
In this world will you try to find your place?
Maybe accept every culture as one human race.
Seek out and find everyone that you love,
and ask for forgiveness from the one above.
Will you smile at the people you don't like,
and see that what makes us different, makes us alike.
Help a stranger pick up something they drop,
or see a person stranded and stop.
Will you still judge people by the color of their skin,
or will you see that what matters, comes from within?
Will you give a blanket to someone who is about to freeze,
and do it out of kindness, before they beg and say please.
When driving, will you stop yelling and beeping?
Maybe find out that the smallest things are worth keeping.
Would you help an elderly person cross the street,
or let the homeless in, to get out of the heat.
Will you still judge people you don't know?
Or do something out of the kindness of your heart, not quid pro quo.
Give someone a few dollars, whose short at the store,
or slow down your important busy life, and hold the door.
Will you let things that make you mad pass?
Maybe stop looking down on people in a lower social class.
See that it doesn't matter what materials you possess,
understand that a person's value, is not based on success.
Can you accept a person's flaws or someone who is not perfect,
and just for the fact that they are human, give them respect.
Right now would you admit what you feel,
would you admit what I said is real.
Copyright © Chris Matt | Year Posted 2010
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