The World Is Coming To An End

Prince Ea

The World is coming to an end

The air is polluted,

the ocean’s contaminated

The animals are going extinct

The economy’s collapsing

Education is shot

Police are corrupt

Intelligence is shunned

And ignorance rewarded

The people are depressed and angry

We can’t live with each other

And we can’t live with ourselves

So everyone’s medicated

We pass each other in the streets

And, if we do speak,

It’s meaningless, robotic

Communication

More people want 15 seconds of fame

Than a lifetime of

Meaning and purpose, because

What’s popular is more important

Than what’s right

Ratings are more important

Than the truth

Our government builds

Twice as many Prisons than schools

It’s easier to find a Big Mac

Than an apple

And when you DO find the apple

It’s been genetically

Processed and modified

Presidents lie

Politicians trick us

Race is still an issue

So is religion

“Your God doesn’t exist,

My God does… and

He is all loving.  If you

Disagree with me, I’ll…

KILL YOU.”

(Or even worse,

Argue you to death)

92% of the songs on the radio

Are about sex

Kids don’t play tag

They play twerk videos

The average person watches

5 hours of television a day

And there’s more violence

On the screen than ever before

Technology has given us

Everything we could ever want

And at the same time stolen

Everything we really need

Pride is at an all-time high

Humility, an all-time low

Everybody knows everything

Everybody’s going somewhere

Ignoring someone

Blaming somebody

Not many Human BEINGS

Left anymore

At lot of Human DOINGS

Plenty of Human

Lingerings in the past

Not many Human BEINGS

Money is still

The root of all evil

Yet we tell our kids,

“Don’t get that degree

The jobs don’t pay enough.”

Good deeds are only done

When there’s a profit margin

Videos of the misfortunes of

Others go viral

We laugh and share them

With our friends

To laugh with us

Our role models today

Sixty years ago

Would have been examples

Of what not to be

There are states

Where people can legally

Be discriminated against

Because they were born

A certain way

Companies invest millions

Of dollars hiring specialists

To make little girls

Feel like they need make up

To be beautiful

Permanently lowering

Their self-esteem

Because they will never be

Pretty enough to meet

Those impossible standards

Corporations tell us,

“Buy! Buy! Buy!

Get this, get that

You must keep up

You must fit in

This will make you

Happy.”

But

It never does for long

So what can we do

In the face of all this

Madness and chaos?

What is the solution?

We can LOVE.

Not the love you hear

In your favorite song

On the radio

I mean Real Love

True Love

Boundless Love

You can LOVE

Love each other

From the moment

We wake up

Until the moment

We go to bed

Perform an act of kindness

Because that is contagious

We can be mindful

During every interaction

Planting seeds of goodness

Showing a little more

Compassion than usual

We can forgive because

300 years from now

Will that grudge you hold

Against your friend,

Your mother,

Or your father

Have been worth it?

Instead of trying

To change others

We can change ourselves

We can change our hearts

We’ve been sold lies

Brainwashed by our leaders

And those we trusted

To not recognize our

Brothers and Sisters

And to exhibit

Anger, Hatred, and Cruelty

But once we truly LOVE

We meet Anger

With Sympathy

Hatred

With Compassion

And cruelty

With Kindness

LOVE is the most powerful

Weapon on the face of the

Earth

Robert Kennedy once said,

“Few will have the greatness

To bend history, but each

Of us can work to change

A small portion of events

And in the total of all these

Actions will be written the

History…

Of a Generation.”

So, yes, the world is

Coming to an end

And the path towards

A New Beginning…

Starts…

Within YOU.