HELP! Please help people help themselves and each other Please help people see the wool being pulled over their eyes Please help people realise that they can't keep raping Earth and its children Please help us remember throughout the dark times that nothing lasts forever Please answer our pleas WORK Please make stuff Just Work better Please fix our computers already Please bring us lovely wholesome organic open source software to free our minds and our enslaved computers Please provide us with meaningful work to energise us and put food on the table Please furnish us with the required inspiration to clean the kitchen afterwards LOVING Please help us find love... and hold onto it when we do! :) Please remind us that nobody is perfect, not even us Please smooth over the cracks in our communication breakdowns Please give us the tact necessary to be mindful of - and tiptoe sensitively around - our control dramas Please love the children and break the repeating cycles of abusive behaviour GIVING Please give us the will to continue Please give us enough money to live long and prosper Please give us enough money to be able to give some money to those in need Please give us the insight to realise how lucky we really are Please give us Hope in these crazy times we inhabit LET US PLAY Please let us forgive even the bankers and politicians Please don't let them sell everything down the river Please don't let us forget the powers of flowers and trees and seas Please remind everyone of the wonder of music Please nourish our souls in song and dance HEALTH Please keep us healthy enough not to notice how lucky we are to be so Please teach people how to look after themselves again Please provide enough wellbeing to go around, and hopefully a bit left over too Please reduce suffering to a minimum - we all know some degree of suffering is to be expected, but come on! Please make it all end, if not happily ever after, at least fairly well considering
Written 2011-01-19 Wednesday 22:00 at Full Moon.
OK, I guess I am a hippie deep down! :-) This will one day become a song. in the meantime, please feel free to modify and spread...
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Malcolm Smith 2011-01-19 - last updated 2011-01-19