Imagine

Take a look around you, open your eyes to the pain, the world we live is dying faster and faster it seems like every single day, there is violence and murder every where with our children dying now in the streets, religious wars, and poverty so much it makes me sick, I pray to God but i am not sure if He is even at home, it appeares now that we maybe all alone on our own, what to we do just give up and look away?, We ourselves have created all the problems, humanity is the one to blame, it is time to close your facebooks, stop snap chatting the night away get up and go outside into the light and start taking back our streets and towns instead of living in fear within the dark inside, we need to start to dream again and imagine what that would be like, we need to, 

Imagine

Imagine a world one 

with no hate 

that has no prejudice 

that decides

your fate 

where white Is

winter and falling

as snow 

and black 

is the night against 

the stars in the sky 

and a full moons

glow

imagine that the

only colors

that are taught are 

Those of 

rainbows

and of crayons

In their box

imagine a world that 

has only one race 

where everyone is

equal and not 

case by case

where we all 

live in peace and 

war has now ceased 

no boundaries or

lines just wide

open space 

imagine a world where 

everyone eats

there is no hunger 

or poverty 

and everyone speaks

where we all care for 

each other in our

hearts, minds, and souls

where love is shown

wherever you go 

imagine a world where

we all can live 

to choose are religion 

and faith no crime

to fight and know

we are still safe

imagine it all started with 

the dream of 

one man a poet, a father, 

a stranger, a friend 

who imagined 

a world full of peace 

and all hate was to end 

imagine, imagine, and then

imagine again.

Poet Richard M Knittle Jr.

A Poet's Journey

A Texas Poet Laureate Nominee 2016-2020