I Want To Make You All Cry

I want to make you all cry It's good for people to cry It's better than sitting round miserably Pretending to laugh People don't cry enough! I want to make you all cry For yourselves and all people who Don't have to die For kids who are hungry and put to hard labour When they should be greedy and pains in the neck Who know the world is wrong but won't be heard Who only hear shouting, destruction And cries of distress Only our shared tears can clean up this mess I want to make you all cry At the shame of getting by Unable to cope with life's complexities Or even ask why Love is never enough! I want to make you all cry For yourselves and all people who Don't have to lie But must for the sake of our little luxuries The only way we spread love and happiness To spite the orders that come from above “You work your contract or there's the door!” That's the reason why We live on lie after lie after lie. I want to make you all cry For people you just let go To politics and the geography You know, the money Forcing us to depart! I want to make you all cry For the people you must pass by In your own home On the street, in the shop and on the TV news Feeling sorry but too powerless to help All the problems you deal with by yourself With nobody knowing to help you Just trying to smile At the cruel way the world became so vile I want to make you all cry To salute what you see die In Syria, here and inside yourself For what? The money? Global economy? I want to make you all cry It's urgent, we must cry today! It's not too late To face up to what we've been trying to deny What we have suffered and what we are losing Blanking it out with our kind of boozing Not letting the merciful tears flow Time to let them go! To weep and embrace and do what we know.

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Published: Sep 1, 2013
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Notes: Sorry to return to Hello Poetry with an invitation to cry, but it seems that this year has been a pretty bad one for me personally (nothing tragic, but stress, worries and petty distractions) and the world in general; not the worst in history, perhaps, but still too much killing and greed and continuing inequality, despite the efforts of such good people as Martin Luther King - celebrated especially this year for the inspiration given by his example and his rightly celebrated "I have a dream" speech.
Thank you to all who've read my work on here and shared their own. Thanks to this and other forums, the community of poets may grow ever closer and more truly global. We, the "unacknowledged legislators of the world" (Shelly) can have a voice in the debate!
Should've mentioned it on Hello Poetry sooner but I am helping to found a poetry contest in aid of poets and Titchfield Festival Theatre in Hampshire, England, near where I live. Entry can be by email, no fee involved and the first prize is £150! Please search my WordPress blog or Titchfield Festival Theatre's own sites for further details, And if you can't make an entry by September 8th, have a go next year!
Love and peace to you all,
JPF Goodman

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