My World

My World

My world is big, is beautiful, is grand,
With rolling hills, with deep blue oceans.
My world is original, with greenish grass,
With yellow sun, with purple mountains.
My world is unique, is pure,
With clear water, with light blue skies.

My world is full of wrong from deadly hands,
Of atom bombs, of chemicals.
My world has changed to guns, to war,
To disease, to famine, to poverty, to hatred.
My world is filled with poison, with pollution,
With prejudice from harmful hearts.

My world is gone; I lost it long ago.
Newspaper headlines shout the terrors,
The terrors that shattered my world.

Farewell the beautiful, the pure;
Farewell the grand, the original, the unique.
Farewell my world for I have failed,
To hold you close and keep your near; to protect and love you was my job,
My only gift to you. I'm sorry. Forgive me, I have truly loved you.

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