You can talk about gun control
And limiting violence on TV.
You can advocate for good mental health services,
Foster better parenting skills, and war against sexual exploitation.
You can fight to eliminate hunger, violent video games,
And raising people’s awareness to help refugees in trouble.
You can raise security at airports and schools
And hire more police to protect us;
All of these are worthy causes.
Yet, when is the discussion going to turn
Toward how to raise better people, all across this planet;
Who care for themselves equally as they do others.
Collectively when are we actually going to feed the hungry?
Help each to have a safe home,
And humanely care for the sick and dying,
Treating our brothers and sisters as our selves?
Condemning and eliminating those societal forces
Who worship money, and take power through destruction and greed.
Yes, the ills of this world are created by people
Who seek to serve their own lower need.
This is pure greed, selfishness and self interest;
Create better people who think of others as themselves,
And these problems will not be tolerated.
The only real future for the human race
Is to act as mature human beings
Who love and care for each other.
As a planet, we must be in the business of making better people
And support all enterprises that truly have this as their goal.
Collectively this must be our Great Work;
A planet of loving, caring and helpful people
Who rise above their own lower nature
And reach toward the heavens, clasping their neighbor’s hand.
-SB
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Society has to stop pointing fingers, we are the ones that caused this, and we are the only ones that can fix this. Please can’t we take our blinders off and reach out.
One day perhaps we will stop looking at symptoms and look at root causes. For example, teach children to help each other instead of take from each other; teach them how to rise above their lower nature and share the Light. Stop masking greed and self-interest with a philosophy/religion of capitalism and the more the better. It is only better if it is shared and no one goes hungry or wanting. Yes some people should make more but only if all are helped . . . Greed, fear, and self-interest are the enemy; to a point they are useful and protect us but many have taken their own selfish need too far. That is the root cause.
I couldn’t agree more. Very well said!