Imagine

Imagine if we could turn back the hands of time

But keep what we now know in our mind

If we could use our power and our strength

To build each other, go to mighty lengths

Of educating ourselves and our people too

Produce young soldiers to place on the battle field of truth

To love and to cherish; to have and to hold

Instead of chasing after mass materialistic fool’s gold.

Imagine if we understood the true meaning of support

Through each trial and triumph and didn’t cut short

The balance we were bound to achieve if we only knew

How to love unconditionally and give each other our due

Without trying to control and needing to condemn

Without punishing each other for each other’s sins

Without dragging the baggage of others in

Without trying to move forward while focusing on where we’d been.

Imagine the life we’d have now and the goals we would have achieved

If we stood by each other and only believed

That there was more to it than just what we gave

That we could conquer much more if our love had been brave.

We could have moved the mountains that we instead chose to climb

Could have provided the sight instead of ourselves being blind

Could have uplifted and empowered the spiritually poor

But instead we imagined that elsewhere was more.