So you want to change the world




So you want to change the world

So you want to change the world

This is what I hear you say

As you gossip on the corners

I see you every day

Destroying reputations

With the venom in your words

Rousing ugly feelings

Getting others stirred.

So you want to change the world

Making it a better place

As you raise your noses in the air

With disdain upon your face

For those you think you're better than

Who be the same as you

Before you try to change the world

Just take a look please do.

So you want to change the world

Though these labels you all wear

You preach all your religions

Without you nary a care

For those who have their own beliefs

So many wars are fought

Though all those truth that you espouse

Be just stuff you've been taught.

5 May 2014 @ 1427hrs.

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Submitted on July 17, 2015

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Scheme A A b x b x x x A c d c x e a e A d x d x f x f b
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 734
Words 150
Stanzas 25
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1

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