A More Recent Poem (What If?)

This is a poem that I wrote right before the end of last school year (May 24, 2006).

What if?

What is a life?

Why do we live?

How do we know it's real?

What if...

We put ourselves through so much,

Like stress,

Each mistake we make,

We feel like less,

What if...

We just lived our life,

Not caring about anything,

Whether it is wrong or right,

But what if...

You care?

What if you have a conscious?

Yourself you scared,

What if...

We were all the same?

Would we all be poor?

Would we all have fortune and fame?

But what if...

It starts with one,

One person caring,

One person's love,

But what if that happened?

What would happen if you did one good deed for someone different each day?

How much of your confidence would you gain?

How many lives would that one good deed save?

What if?

When I wrote this poem I guess I was thinking on how much everyone always stays in the dark about what they truly want. Once they finally find out that one thing that makes them truly happy, it becomes an obsession. They don't realize from always thinking about what they want and how tough their lives are, there is someone else out there who needs attention. So, the next time you think you're live is so horrible ask yourself what if I smiled at one person each day? What if I asked someone what's wrong if they look down in the dumps. What if I did one good deed each day and what if I loved someone as much as I possibly could?