As I stand here

As I Stand Here

As I stand here on this mountain top 
looking at all of Gods creations in 
complete and total awe at all that surrounds 
me, I am saddened that I am even human
 any more since hate, violence, and racism 
is all I ever now see, with children dying 
before they are born with some even homeless, 
hungry, and living dirty on the streets with
 people who are just like me that are diagnosed 
with mental illness with no care all like 
depression, anxiety, addictions, personality 
disorders, and even PTSD.

As I stand here and think about life and
 so many other different things in this 
valley that is down below, I started wondering 
out loud and then to myself "Have we not
 learned anything from our past?" World war I, 
World War ll, Vietnam, Korea, Gulf War 
and many more,
is there not anything else besides killing 
and war that we know? When will we finally
 be ready to give peace a chance? That is 
what I want to know, but the problem is 
greed and power and that will be very hard 
to erase and are the catalyst to all the 
violence around the world that we use to 
make excuses for all of our made up man-made wars.

As I navigate and sail around in all 
the big beautiful deep blue seas, I 
started thinking thoughts about who
 and what we really are, then it finally 
suddenly occurred to me that just 
maybe the time that we have here on 
this earth is just a practice for what is 
yet to come and as we use up our 
sands of time, die and then move on 
when all our souls ascend above to
become Angels, are we not higher 
up on his rung?

As I lay here tonight in this field that 
is covered with beautiful white and 
red roses, on this blanket, looking up 
at all the stars, I wonder how long it 
would take if I counted them all and 
would there be just as many as all of 
the innocent souls that we have lost, 
in all of the fighting just for oil in all 
of our made up man-made wars?

Floating down this long and curvy
river looking up at the big and
beautiful bright sun, I wonder why
we have so many homeless and
starving people in this world, when
we really should have none. I truly
believe that God has put us all here
on this earth together to help each
other out, but take a good look at
us now and what we have done,
because if this was just a test I am
quite sure that we are failing this
world and that is without a doubt.

As I sit here on my front porch in
Fort Worth, Texas early on a
cold spring morning, I look around
at all that I have and though it is not 
much I am very thankful for what I 
do because I know there are so many 
others who have none which makes 
me think just how lucky that I really 
am and now I try to teach that to all 
of my four sons,

 So I start to wonder why are we here 
on down on this earth for just such a 
little bit of time and my heart begins 
to sink and break knowing that we all 
live a life so sublime, I hope this world 
can find peace and equality soon for 
all, so that my children can grow up 
with no fear of wars, and whatever 
the religion that they decide if they even 
chose one is theirs and theirs alone 
with poverty, hunger, and disease that 
will only be taught in history classes 
in schools and that the only colors 
that are taught will be only born from all of the
rainbows and crayons In their box.

I believe that peace on this earth
is really a very easy task, but first
we must find peace in ourselves
in hopes that it will always last.
Peace at heart is where to start 
then family, cities, and states and 
then the world would follow, disarm 
all their weapons just in case, all 
we need to do Is just take a look 
deep down inside of ourselves and
 let all of the hate and anger go, 
then smile at everyone that we meet
 then soon the world will begin
 to smile too from sea to shining sea.

We all just need to believe like me.

Poet Richard M Knittle Jr. 
A #Poets Journey