The world is a dangerous place to live; not because the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.

 

Albert Einstein

LIVING IN THE STATUS QUO

Are we good when we let evil thrive?

Turn our backs without despise

Like it's not there, we act surprised

When it's pointed out it has arrived?

We are good it's not our concern?

Windows smashed and buildings burned

Shaking our heads, again we turn

Asking will they ever learn

Who are we to interfere

With evil folks inciting fear?

We've seen them around and often hear

ISIS is their financier

Kids are bullied, that's so sad

Let's hope they stop it, that's too bad

Our kids are good, say mom and dad

Their kids are bullies and yet they brag

Politicians are terribly corrupt

Lie to their minions and round them up

Buy the votes from all the schmucks

Set the country on self destruct

Evil is here, of course we know

Yet we're living in the status quo

Plant the seeds and watch them grow

The evil weeds just wait below

"The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and be greater than our suffering."

THE GOLDEN RECIPE 

If we could create a sunrise

How beautiful that would be

That power would epitomize

An awesome capacity

We know that's not in our power

But it could be to what we aspire

If we'll spend each waking hour

Knowing it's in us to inspire

We need to somehow overcome 

The negativity we have embraced

The faults that within can be undone

Can inspire the human race

We've endured the worst mankind would see

And continue that, we must

We'll overcome the worst of history

And regain a national trust

We can transform our past mistakes

Hold dear our love and passion

Be the betterment that goodness makes

Bring continuity into fashion 

We will learn to handle our suffering

With the changes that are due

And from the woesome gutters spring

Into the best we ever knew