look

Open your eyes
&look at yourself
Life filled with overwhelming wealth
Priviliged, pretty, fed and warm
Kept away from any harm
Yet you still sit there,
taking your life for granted,
because you can't have everything you ever wanted.
You wake up,
upset that you lived to the next day
But think for a second,
and anyway,
maybe you'll realize that you're okay
Last night,
A young mother cries
As her new born baby dies
Starvation and malaria
Took another life
A young child in the slums,
Filled with so much hope;
Even through the drunken beatings
Of her father .
A young girl sits at the airport sobbing;
Her soldier never came home
He was left in the bloody barren desert,
along with her heart;
so alone.
And here you are;
Filled with hate;
warm and never hungry
New clothing everyday
Parents that love you;
And a sheltered place to stay.
If I were you,
I'd wake up smiling
&pray
Thank you God for letting me wake up 
A L I V E & W E L L 
today