The world today

so grim and gray

war torn and blasé

Bleak faces stare from our television screens.

Death behind, here right now and forever more.

So grim, and we

so numb, we watch everyday

helpless to look away.

Shed tears do we? Raise arms

to stop the deaths of millions?

Not we.

I tell the world to wake up and see

that compassion is

what we need.

Cast off your shrouds, I

inform thee.

Where we were blinded,

now we must see

If unity is ever such a thing to be.