The World Could Be Beautiful by Dylan Lyons

The World Could Be Beautiful by Dylan Lyons

The world could be beautiful,
but we let greed reign.
The rich rig the system
for their own gain.
Kids without food,
families without homes.
The growing debt smothers,
but we’re all on our own.

The world could be beautiful,
but we let guns rule.
The fear lurks around us,
on the streets and at school.
Parents lose children,
children lose friends.
Is that the price of “freedom,”
these violent ends?

The world could be beautiful,
but we let hate thrive.
Anyone who’s different
must fight to survive.
Racism runs deep,
down to the soil,
but the structures of power
feed off the turmoil.

The world could be beautiful,
but we’re letting it burn.
Nature’s decaying
as the earth turns.
We live for consumption,
for oil and gas,
so the storms just grow stronger
and take longer to pass.

The world could be beautiful,
if we switch up the play.
We could rewrite the rules
and demand a new day.
Replace hate with compassion
and swap greed for giving.
In a world this beautiful,
we’d truly be living.