For the Better
The world is full of change;
Some good, some bad.
My heart is full of change,
Which may seem bad
But always takes a turn for the better.
I want to think, to feel, to be,
But only change will bring this to me;
Only change will bring this to all.
I want to eliminate the struggles,
Eliminate the unemployment
And the illegal drugs,
The wrongful convictions
And protests against funerals.
That is it,
That is what I want.
I want to rid all the world of
Funeral protests.
Take away the hate
That comes with the tapping,
Twisting and burning.
I want to remove their pain,
The pain they feel.
The pain that stems from
Their religious belief of an afterlife
And causes their mind to run screaming
In a train of endless distressing thoughts.
They begin to think,
To feel with their very souls
That their loved ones are weeping
In heaven or as a ghost,
Or whatever their beliefs suggest.
These thoughts pull their minds
Into an inescapable abyss
Of depression and anxiety --
All from watching corruption.
All of this from watching corrupted people
March back and forth across
A graveyard, waving their
Criticisms in the air as if
They were law.
While protest is right,
While protest began this country,
No one -- and I mean no one --
Should be forced to see their
Loved ones' grave trampled over
And defiled by those who insult
Them while they lie still in their grave,
Silently hoping the end will come and
Swallow them whole.