Stand Up

Everywhere I turn I see injustice

When I watch the TV

When I listen to the radio

When I read a newspaper

And even when I walk down the street

It makes me feel sick inside

When I see scenes of war

I just don’t understand

Why we had to go and fight

Why did these men have to die?

I just want to cry

When I see the people of Africa

To see them hungry and dying

Makes me angry inside

How can the powers to be let this happen?

Do people really care?

About what happens outside their world?

Do they care about,

Anyone else but themselves

To me the answer is no

We need people who have got a voice

We need people who have got the power

To stand up and fight

We have these people

But others laugh at them and scorn them

For the good they are trying to do

But every little bit they do

Helps whose who are unfortunate than us

All I want to say is

Don’t laugh at them

Don’t scorn what they are doing

But stand up and help them

It’s the only way things will change

It’s the only way to get people to listen

Joanne Kennedy ©

November 2004