Is Change Good?

If you could would you change the world?
Take away all the bad things?
What would the world be like, do you think?
If life was not ever mean?

No wars, no hunger, and no scornful words.
What a grand thing t’would be.
But if that’s what you think, mistaken are you.
So now just listen to me.

If no tragedy struck and no wars were waged,
No famines gripped the land,
If sickness fled, and all children were fed,
Who’d give them a helping hand?

We’d have no want for caring, no room for sharing,
We’d think of only ourselves.
Yes we have faults now but in a perfect world,
Our actions are nothing but bells.

When love is unneeded and sweet words unheeded,
What purpose, have romancing airs.
To change the world would be a dreadful thing.
We’d lose all our heres and our theres.

Lost forever the sensations of now would become.
All glorious desires would fade.
Petals drifting unnoticed to filled, empty graves,
Shoved to the point of the blade.

All pursuits for valor would soon cease to survive,
With no dragons for knights to slay.
The damsels no longer would be in distress.
All quests would be held at the bay.

“So change the world?” again now that you know.
What would it really do?
But create one more problem for all of us to solve,
Or just change our point of view?