You think I should try to change the world.
To start climbing this insurmountable
Problem.
To scale it until I either fall off
Or have to stop and just cling on
Because it only gets steeper the higher you go,
And is their even a top?

Is that how it should be?

And haven’t we had our chance?
Perhaps it would be better to just move aside,
Lay down whatever we’ve taken with us,
Misunderstandings
Machines
Words
Ideas
Hate
Love?
What would we still have?
So maybe I don’t want to change the world.

Or if I must
I want to change just one small thing.
Only it would be so slight
No one but me would noticed
And I’d never tell.

Would it matter?
One blue pixel
On a blank red screen
Or a bottle
Lost among the waves.
If hope falls in a forest alone
Does it make a sound?
And if it does,
How far can that sound travel?

You think I should try to change the world.
You’re probably right.
But at this instant I can only pray,
That this country’s wiring
And this world’s spark
Is intact enough
That when I flip just one small switch,
Somewhere a light turns on.