Visions
Making a Better World
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." -- Mahatma Gandhi
What can I do to change the world?
The cry for social justice is often
the crusade to combat evil with evil,
violence with violence,
injustice with counter injustice.
Revolutions so often
sweep blood thirsty dictators from power
with further blood thirsty power.
The system is not changed
only the personnel.
The victims, resenting tyranny,
impose their own.
To change the world we must
consider what is really good.
Two wrongs do not make a right.
Justice is often what we wish on our enemies
and from which we seek to protect
ourselves and our friends.
So we need to first apply our
standards to ourselves,
to change ourselves into what we
know to be true and good and just.
Until this is taken care of
we cannot instruct or inspire others.
Be the person you want others to be.
True worth is being, not seeming,
If you want justice strive to be just,
if you want truth strive to be truthful,
if you have ideals strive to embody them.
Too often the whole World
has not been changed
but in some protected refuge
a better world has been made,
What can I do to change the world?
The cry for social justice is often
the crusade to combat evil with evil,
violence with violence,
injustice with counter injustice.
Revolutions so often
sweep blood thirsty dictators from power
with further blood thirsty power.
The system is not changed
only the personnel.
The victims, resenting tyranny,
impose their own.
To change the world we must
consider what is really good.
Two wrongs do not make a right.
Justice is often what we wish on our enemies
and from which we seek to protect
ourselves and our friends.
So we need to first apply our
standards to ourselves,
to change ourselves into what we
know to be true and good and just.
Until this is taken care of
we cannot instruct or inspire others.
Be the person you want others to be.
True worth is being, not seeming,
If you want justice strive to be just,
if you want truth strive to be truthful,
if you have ideals strive to embody them.
Too often the whole World
has not been changed
but in some protected refuge
a better world has been made,
Comment On This Poem --- Vote for this poem
Making a Better World
Making a Better World
