Perspective

Each day the sun rises

Seldom new surprises

Some goes right some goes wrong

Days too short days too long

Turn a knob fresh water flows

End most days with television shows

Have a car but gas prices are high

So many reasons to stress and wonder why we try

Modern issues modern stress

Will they like my hair  is this the right dress

A woman we know but never met

Has a small radio no television set

She drags a jar nine miles for a ration of brackish water

Its been two months since she buried her daughter

Real world issues real world stress

How long can one survive in this filth and mess

Just off our shore the poorest you'll ever see

Living in the mud yet no water to drink in the land Haiti

The wealth we have amassed the greatest treasure ever seen

When it comes to Haiti of each one here no hands are clean

Big picture issues big picture stress

One whines over discomfort but for others couldn't care less

Tax breaks for the super wealthy

Luxuries and food to keep us healthy

Some have so much money for themselves

They would remain super wealthy even after building every Haitian family a house

This isnt sustainable and a moral weight

Solving an issue like Haitian poverty then America would be great

We don't worry about the Haitians

Instead we worry about sending migrants back to their nations

We build up mistrust and animosity

Personal comfort allows us to ignore what we don't want to see

Take off the blinders  open your eyes look and see

we're creating more problems than we're solving and must ask is this really who we want to be