Small Blue Pearl

The peaceful beauty of our planet
when viewed from far out in space.
Is nothing but a facade,
when you zoom in on the human race.


We're on this spaceship Earth
for only a blink of the cosmic eye.
Born, live a micro mini-second of eternity
and then we die.

So, what do we use this very short
but wonderful lifespan for?
But to hate & kill, kill & hate
and then hate & kill some more!

We hate & kill for greed, power
and in the name of religious glory.
You say I'm telling you nothing new.
Yes, it's a very sad old story.

Down deep inside we're all the same,
this you can't deny it's true.
With only slight variations of
culture, skin tone and hue.

When the blood flows we all bleed
the same color of red.
As it is now flowing all around the world
and we lose count of the dead.

The children starve in Africa,
we have crack babies in the city.
But, it's politics as usual,
it's love we need not pity.

Oh, when will all the hate & killing stop?
This is all we know.
We're all stuck on this small blue pearl
with nowhere else to go.

We don't know the answers
as we see and feel the pain.
We can only plant seeds of love,
nothing to lose everything to gain.

As the new year opens before us
like the furrows in a fertile ground.
Let us give the seeds of hope, respect and love
to all of those we are around.

Do a good deed for a sister or a brother,
it may just multiply.
Like a lonely seed in the desert,
when watered will open it's beautiful blooms to the sky.

HH Jr.