Picture Perfect

Shall I paint you,
A picture?
It’s black
And white.

Its colors
Have drained away
Waning hope
Is here to stay

Do you understand
What’s going on?
Or are you simply
Ignorant , like the rest?

There
Are broken bodies
Aching souls
Do you see?

Is your world
Picture perfect?
If it is
You live a lie.

Just because you
Have something to eat
A loving family
In the winter you switch on the heat.

It doesn’t mean
The world is great
Life is easy
Or perfect.

People starve
Children beaten
Now can you see
So many defeated?

The way the world
Is painted
Is something
We cannot change

No matter
What we do
But filling in the colors
That starts with you.