What do you do?

When you have a piece of paper in front of you?

 

You could write down your feelings about today's young people.

and how brilliant they are becoming.

Writing away about our black men who get shot everyday

just because of the color of their skin.

You coud use that piece of paper to save generations of minorities. 

You could have transformed that peper into a million dollar speech on global warming.

Or even divorce paper for an abused women,

just sayin'.

A contract could have been drafted with that piece of paper about starting a new business. 

That piece of paper could be used with issues like homelessness,

and bring awareness to James Leone.

It could have been used to eduate children in Africa. 

That's all they really want is a piece of paper to write their ABCs and number.

That paper staring at you could be used to write a song on how human trafficking is becoming more and more relevant.

Instead of using it to write about hoe many yachts and bikini wearin' women you could get.

 

That piece of paper in front of you could be used for so much:

Girls who are taken raped and murdered everyday, or

Boys who are molested by priests themselves.

That paper in front of you could be used to help teens with low self-esteem.

You could have used that piece of paper as adoption papers for Jessica.

You could have turned that paper into money for cancer research. 

 

That piece of thin wood could have been used to bring awareness to women who smoke while pregnant, killing their offspring.

Or men who have sex with multiple women and can't keep track of which child is theirs. 

You could have made a poster to bring down George Zimmerman, or 

they could have been used to help the bisexual teen Jamey Rodemeyer from commiting suicide. 

 

But you continue to question what a piece of paper could do.

Why? 

What is the purpose of questioning?

Don't question anything?

The more you question the more pieces of paper you waste.

The more you question the more pieces of paper you waste.

STOP!

 

Instead you insist to draw smiley faces and unicorns on those exact pieces of paper I'm talking about.

And what makes me angrier is that you continue to do it.

Never once stopping to realize that, that paper could be used to do the impossible.

What about those kids in homes who don't get to smile?

You could have used that paper to write a funny letter to them during the holidays.

However, you chose not to.

You chose to waste that piece of paper.

You chose to question yourself.

You chose to pretend that paper wasn't there.

The more you questioned the more pieces of paper you wasted.

The more you questioned the more pieces of paper you wasted.

BUT...

 

You chose not to because you didn't know. 

You didn't know that a piece of paper could do so much. 

You didn't know that people like you could say anything meaningful on a piece of paper.

You chose not to because you didn't know.

 

But if I asked you again?

Would you know then?

 

What would you do? 

If you had a piece of paper in front of you?