Life Gives Us A Chance To Make It Better Poem by Savita Tyagi

God will not fix the slaughter!
Prayers will not work!
There isn't a body guard for every body!
Love thy neighbor is obsolete!
Mind your own business takes us no where!
Killing machine keeps on churning!
Life keeps on moving! So must we!

Fear must not paralyze us!
Hate and anger must not take over!
There is more to life than black and white.
Beyond Christianity or Islam,
Hinduism or Sikhism,
Buddhist or Confucius,
There is a race called Humans.

We devise ever new notions
In search for solutions.
Unable to find one,
Vent our anger and frustration,
And submit to perilous emotions.
Eventually the storm subsides!
Life keeps on moving! So must we!

Still one is left wondering,
Where do we go from here?
We are taught to believe,
War is not the answer,
But we can't stop fighting!
We know hate is not the answer
Yet we can't stop hating!

We understand greed is not good
Yet we love to control earth's resources!
We realize anger is not good
Yet we can't stop angry outbursts!
We know world is too big to be
Run by just few commanders
Yet we love to command others!

Ironically we are never in restrain of ourselves!
The one and the only answer to rid us of perdition,
Upon which we can work on with some precision.
We can't control the whole world
But we sure can try to control ourselves!
Life gives us a chance to make it better.