World Leaders Respect
The world needs leaders, that it can respect,
lying to people builds distrust,
granted people can and do make up false beliefs,
conspiracy theories,
The Russian people turned against the Czar
because they believed, that Rasputin
was telling the Czarette and the Czar
how to run the country
Poverty and suffering leads to hatred,
add rumors and innuendo
and you create a climate, where
the people turn against you.
Starlin killed sixty million people
that disagreed with him
his dream to make a better world
the ends justify the means
Sixty million brave Russian's
died fighting against injustice
fighting for the homes taken from them
homes farms and live's
Have you heard the saying
look after your pennies
and your dollars will
look after themselves
your poor people are your pennies
create jobs for you pennies
create homes for your pennies
and your rich people will profit from sales
we are all in this world together
we all depend on each other
the rich people make the jobs
the poor people work in those jobs
abuse is still ripe on a planet
that calls itself civilized
sweatshop labor still exists
an honest wage for honest days works
The dreams of unions past
is that such a horrible request
People in the industrialized nations
fought for the right of our children
fought for the right of our workers
now employers simply travel
into third world countries
to continue the abuse in other countries
We are all part of the same world
granted we all have limited budgets
we all go for cheap products
eggs from caged chickens
cheap clothes from sweatshop labor
and honest wage for an honest days work
we abuse each other over yesterdays slavery
and fail to see the slavery of today
as leaders of the world, you need respect
to build that respect, create investment
to overcome climate change
build respect speaking out to stop the abuse of people
People are not stupid we remember your lies
we watch well you have affairs
we guess at the truth behind
your propaganda
we don't always get it right
in a world full of lies sometimes
it's hard to find the truth
but each day the planet gets smaller
if you want people to respect you
become people we can respect
Copyright © Bernard Barclay | Year Posted 2020
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