Day 331 - Tears of a Generation

Someone began to weep from across the sea

And the tears began to rain down on me

The green and gray clouds began to bruise

The sky who has lost all its happier hues

Yet light peaks out in the misery

On the horizon is a new spree

One that is spreading education

Across the small and even the great nation

We have had to weep for a generation

But starting tonight we will weep in elation

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A note from the Poet:

Today World AIDS Day and this post is in honor of that. This post represents the hope that in 2015 not a single child will be born with AIDs. This post represents hope for a healthier world, with less poverty and disease.

Day 137 - Earth's Laughter

Let us go bouncing up on the clouds

They are springy and wondrous

Just like the pressing crowds

At amusement parks too humongous

No matter what the pilots say

Whether or not the scientists believe us

Or laugh at how we wish to spend our day

Try though they might to deceive us

You and I know clouds are simply

White trampolines suspended in space

The best of the world joyfully

Scattered across the miles of Earth's round face

Day 94 - Circle of Hope

Dedicated to Ravit, for instilling and igniting passion

Circle of Hope

Each stone has a story

A rushing, rhythmic, glowing glory

Of the mountain it used to be

Now washed into the great, wide sea

The circle that you see before you

Let it deeply implore you

To find the answer, in this time

When all anger seems the crime

We shall stand and support the young

For all their songs that are left unsung

Their growth is green and bright,

The truest source of the great light

That will teach peace to every nation

Bringing forth the greatest of elation.

For now we protect them in love

Thanking our lucky stars above

For sending us such wondrous hope

So that youth and joy may elope

Creating the world we all long for

Beginning from the stones' core

Day 49 - Switch

Switch

If all the switches remain pointed downward

Then soon the hope for light is soured

And yet from up above something showers

No longer the hand of darkness cowers

It tries to sidle its way into the heart

Pushing it back is what sets one apart

If you could manage to flick on one light

That would make the whole world bright

If only in a single quiet corner

Then teach that trick to a foreigner

And we will light the whole world over

So that miracles shall continue to occur