21st Century

"I can see all obstacles in my way"
(With thanks to Johnny Nash)

I wish I had a light-box with which to see the world more clearly;
I wish it was possible to see right down to people’s souls.

I wish we could understand people by the colours of their thoughts instead of the colour of their skin;
to know them by the music of their minds instead of the disharmony of their words.

I wish we could read people like a book with pleasant plot twists and happy surprise endings.

Instead the syntax is garbled, the words misspelled, the stories unimaginative, the characters self-indulgent.

I wish the good guys glowed with smiles and light, and the bad’ns carried warning signs;
that people were judged by good deeds rather than good looks and a bank account.

I wish people would listen to what is said instead of hearing what they expect.

I wish that good would triumph over evil, and truth over prevarication with more frequency.

Ronda R. Scott-Marak

©21 February 2017