INVERSE

When you put a finger to me I light up like a match.  Soaring up toward the Skies With my wings of wax.  You say you're flying with me- That you're right by my side.  But your wings are of iron, You're not on the same ride.  It's heaven, it is, I don't deny, Yet it singes just a little.  There's a little guilt as I fly alone Into that lonely hell. How can I take you with me? What's the magic spell? It's not fatal, these wings of wax, There's more joy than I can tell.  Let's melt your iron wings, I can't wait till they rust. Come fly with me into the Sun, If in me you trust. 

you'd think that by now, all this would be over. that we'd be color blind, and to our fellow human, kind! you'd think, by now we'd realize  that hatred and violence never solved  a single problem, just brought more strife.  but no. all the old wounds, all the pain and prejudice of yester years are once more bare and open, festering, once more we fight the same wars.  history's a circle what goes around comes around  today's your day, comes tomorrow, who knows what may? break the circle of pain walk in the shoes of your forefather's brother, but also those of his enemy and other. for until you look in the mirror and see that your opposite is just you, wirh your world upside down how will we ever grow? and as fhe generations pass how will we take a single step of progress and not return to the same place?

They came creeping  Night after night  Sowing mines in the earth I'd made just so For my rose garden.  Nothing I can do.  I'd rather live in denial. Now my perfect rose garden Won't be just so. But I look everyday, Watering just a tad gingerly.  Still strewing the seeds that  I believe will be roses.  What if weeds come up, With monstrous claw-like roots? Mines do that too, not just kill, With their radiation.  Is it then ok if roses grow, With the deadly mines underneath? We could never take a walk But only watch from afar  Longing for our rose garden.  If I could tell you,  What would you do? Step around them gingerly? Uproot them at once? Is either a solution Or just one more mine I'm sowing?