1
Planet, 3 Worlds.
As
the third world stutters and looks up to its idol,
the
first simply
stares
back and continues to be idle.
Laden
with high interest rates
and
dreams of equality gone rotten,
they
admire the briefcase enclosing their doom,
woven
with west African cotton.
Belligerent
neocolonialism
has
granted the west an economic reign,
as
consumerist citizens
of
an exploitative nation we are at blame.
We
give enough aid
to
barely keep them at work,
so
we can pay
£2
for a tee shirt.....
1planet,
3 worlds.
We
sleep well at night because they're out of sight,
out
of mind,
but
if we stay this out of touch,
we'll
be out of time.
As
individuals we could make a huge difference,
if
we'd just apply ourselves,
but
collectively
we
sit back and prefer to lie to ourselves.
There's
nothing we can do,
pay
our taxes, pay for our wars,
let
the 6000 children who will die of thirst today pass,
because
they are not yours.
We
have all these pounds,
clothes,
computers, pieces of society
which
help lubricate the cogs of life,
though
they still seem dry to me.
We
have our designer sunglasses
but
it seems we can barely see,
that
if we can't be without,
how
can we ever truly be.
We're
filling up swimming pools
whilst
they're dying of thirst,
out
of humans and nuclear weapons,
it's
the rockets put first.
We've
got money for war
but
we can't feed the poor.
With
ex-colonies struggling to simply survive,
we're
still exploiting their product lines,
diamonds,
tea, rubber, ivory
I
just implore someone to remind me,
when
is it acceptable
to
let another person die?
How
mediated is the scope of perspective
in
front of your minds eye?
Just
think,
dedicating
your life to changing lives
is
never wasting your life.
Why
should it even be considered out of the ordinary,
simply
doing what's right?
We
must educate those in impoverished communities,
teach
them to fend for themselves,
the
value of unity,
allow
them to have at least a chance
of
political immunity.
Give
the children their rightful opportunity,
it
really shouldn't be such an oddity,
to
actually believe in absolute equality.
So
when my time has come,
and
I'm lying in my grave,
instead
of my name on the tombstone,
there'll
be that of those I've saved.
So
the sun has set on 3 worlds today,
3
worlds we sustain.
But
you could see it rise again,
and
bring the light of change.
A young man from Lincoln,
Known only as:
Sayer.
