in PH 2023 ( school Poems ) PH 2023 ( School Poets ) Poets of The Westminster School School Genre - Environment School Genre - Hope

You Will Live On

 

Can you hear the whimpers

Of mortals on Earth?

They seem to have been

Doing that since birth

I know not of you worlds

To the wishes of your heart

Yet I may very know

Why you beg to depart

Let me tell you about the world

Where mortals live and die

About the gruesome wars

Where souls travel high

Let me tell you about the world

About the wicked and their fight

For a land, green and hollow

Like their minds corrupt and tight

Let me tell you about the world

Where skin colour is controversial

Where a booklet decides your fate

Where lives are commercial

O! But let me tell you

This world seems to find

A reason for every human

To leave their kind behind

Yet at the same time

This world shares a blessing

Of people warm and altruistic

As the world is progressing

Let me tell you about the world

Where man whispers with a jingle

Words tender and mild

To tell people they are not single

Let me tell you about the world

Of childrens’ giggles and squeals

Of a mother’s ashy eyebags

To a poet’s gentle appeals

Let me tell you about the world

Where smiles take over guns

Where roofs are built and built

To books sheltered for tons

I have a pulchritudinous dream

Where the world makes space

For every breathing creature

To live a life with grace

Forget not that you will

Live and live to die

Yet forget not dear kind

A print you will leave as you fly

You will live on

Like the sky and the birds

Be human I shall say

Even to your words

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